“Every Street Child Has a Story to Tell”: An Interview with Mbu Maloni

In the following article, Full Circle Magazine‘s Joey Volschenk speaks to the courageous Mbu Maloni whose life story is retold in the inspirational book Nobody Will Ever Kill Me. While Maloni believes that “every street child has a story to tell”, it was the death of a close friend that led him to “put pen to paper”:

The American Novelist James Arthur Baldwin once said that “not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” This statement has never held any significant meaning to me but that was until I met a rather brave and inspirational young man named Mbu Maloni, the author of Nobody Will Ever Kill Me.

At age 18, Mbu has faced and lived through more hardships than most individuals his age. Born in Graaff-Reinet on 18 January 1993, Mbu tells the story of a child left to fend for himself.

“My mother couldn’t find a job. So we had to move to Cape Town when I was five.”

• Complete interview: Full Circle Magazine

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• Nobody Will Ever Kill Me by Mbu Maloni, Lutz van Dijk
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