I am Khethiwe Mndawe. A 23 year old black female writer. And I started writing in primary school. I’ve written my first novel Birdview form 2006 till 2011. This book is close to my heart, and it reflects the realities of African communities in post modern apartheid. Theres a lot of untold stories and tales of what happened to the African rural people in ordinary areas around our province after the apartheid government was removed. It is a fiction story where the reader will go through a journey of a young girl who tells how her indigenous village was slowly modernized and destructed by the many aftermath of the so called “freedom” of South Africa. The story is interesting because it about a people who lived a life believing in the bird for understanding, preservation and harmony living with their environment and other people. As a writer I heaven much interest in Anthropological work and research of people in Africa and I have engaged myself in excursion, studies and interview with different, diverse African that have much to say about the past struggles and everyday “frenzied” life of being an African in a country that has been through immense changes. It is not a historical read but rather an interesting, dramatic, yet familiar story to Africans who have seen and lived through these trials.