MARIAM BIBI JOOMA
Author. Editor. Researcher
BIO
Writing is the currency that Mariam Bibi Jooma has traded in since the moment she discovered her purpose in life - to bear witness to stories of people and histories through words.
Mariam has considerable experience as a journalist, author, researcher and editor. She has a M.A. degree in International Political Economy from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK.
Mariam has lived and worked in various countries as both a student and professional including the UK, China, the US, Sudan, and Turkey. She has extensive field research experience in and writing on the internecine conflicts in the horn of Africa and Turkey.
Her passion is rooted in her place of birth, and finding new ways of telling the stories of South Africa's multiple identities and histories is an important part of her writing focus.
IN MY HEELS
July 20, 2021
Mariam Bibi is excited to share her latest work
In My Heels - a Memoir of Love, Loss and the Will to Keep Going
It is the story of Fatima Waja, a fiesty businesswoman born in the North West Province of South Africa during the height of apartheid. The narrated memoir charts Fatima's peaks and plateaus from a childhood spent largely in hospitals and wheelchairs as a result of septic arthritis contracted in infancy, to an unlikely marriage to her soulmate, challenging business career in a male dominated tech industry and recent widowhood at the age of 45 in the shadow of the COVID 19 pandemic.
It is a book about one woman whose fears and aspirations as a mother, lover and fighter resonate with women everywhere.
The project might have been a lengthy one, but this was one story that really needed to be told.
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity”
