BOOK REVIEW: "B*tch please i'm Khanyi Mbau By Lesley Mofokeng"

 

Khanyi Mbau on the cover of her book by Lesley Mofokeng

BY: Angel Gagoopane

Twitter: @GagoopaneAngel

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This is a bit of a late post, I have always wanted read this book but I just didn’t have the means to buy it then. Now that I have finally bought it, I see it fit to write a review about this thought provoking book that spills all the juicy details about the ever so controversial Khanyi Mbau.

At first when I started reading this book, I knew it was hot! I mean, this is Khanyi Mbau we are talking about, the scandals never end.

Khanyi and Ex husband Mandla in Happier times

What I loved most about this book is that, it explains where, it all started, when she was born and if she was born with the natural urge to love all the finer things in life which is true, she was bought up by her grandmother who ensured that her every need was taken care of. It is sad considering that she didn’t grow up with her father always by her side, and I think that explains why she would go after older men, as they resemble a father figure somehow.

Lesley and Khanyi take us into her world, when she was 18 and married to a man twice her age and old enough to be her father, she explains how she never saw Mandla as an old, ugly man, until he started cheating on her.  Mandla started cheating on Khanyi, when she went for an ultra sound scan and the doctor confirmed that the baby is a girl, and Mandla stormed out of the room. Mandla had expected Khanyi to give birth to a son and when she didn’t Mandla just stopped taking care of Khanyi; her relationship with Mandla started being abusive and things just kept going downhill for the couple.

It was just scandal after scandal from then onwards. This book for me explains a lot that I didn’t understand about Khanyi and it made me realize that often we judge people without knowing the reasons behind the things that they do, good or bad. What I also realized is that, Khanyi Mbau has always been a big dreamer, she always had a love for the finer things in life and she always knew that she would be a star.

I give this book thumbs up! I wouldn’t mind reading this book, over and over again. I hope Khanyi and Lesley will write another book about what Khanyi is doing now; she has gone from a gold-digger to a mother that hustles and does what needs to be done. Good read indeed.