Busani-Dube has just released another book to wrap up the series titled The End. There is a sixth and final installment of the Hlomu The Wife book series which has just been dropped. The series tells love stories through the eyes of the wives who fall in love with the tall, dark and dangerous brothers.These books have sold tens of thousands of copies, and are getting popular by the day. The Hlomu Series is centered around the lives of eight Zulu brothers, a formidable crime family from Greytown, KZN. The bestselling writer and journalist is the author and successful self-publisher of Hlomu The Wife, Zandile The Resolute, Naledi His Love, Iqunga and Mess. Even for someone who has written a couple of books like Dudu Busani-Dube the feeling is still surreal. Every author out there will tell you that the best day of the career is always when they release a book. “I also encourage them not to read my books until they are older because I touch on a lot of toxicity and I wouldn’t want them to think that is okay in love,” she said.īusani-Dube said her books have changed the reading culture in some communities and have also opened the door for self-published books to be sold in bookstores.Dudu Busani-Dube Drops Her Latest Novel Hlomu The End. But over and above that, the books have given me so much financial freedom, also being able to have an impact as someone who is now influential.”Īpart from giving professional talks, she also adds that she has made it her mandate to give talks to schools in impoverished places to encourage reading.
I just reconnected with myself recently, to the Dudu that I was before the books.
“I had a huge breakdown because I felt that I did not exist outside the Hlomu series and had to go to therapy. So much so that she felt that she started to lose herself and could not recognise herself outside of the books. She shares that Hlomu The Wife is still flying off the shelves.īusani-Dube describes her writing as very simple, a word she also uses to describe herself.Īnd as her books blew up, her life changed drastically. It then grew bigger each year,” she said, adding that she did not anticipate that the hype would still linger eight years later. I decided to blog the first three chapters on Wordpress and it blew up. Reading was also really not a culture within this community that I was writing for. Its success was so immediate, especially in a time when fiction books about black people were really not popular. “When I penned the first book Hlomu The Wife, I did not see things unfolding this way. Busani-Dube graduated from Durban University of Technology in 2003 and has enjoyed a 14-year-long journalism career that ended in 2018.
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