In her work and her public talks, she tells of poverty and of making a living as a domestic worker while she schooled herself through distance learning.
As a child, she had to navigate her way through a system that relegated her to the periphery and treated black people as sub-human.However, she was one of the many black women who found a way to resist this oppressive system that aimed at dictating her way of being in the world. According to literary scholar and author Barbara Boswell, Magona is one of the writers who
Home is a multilayered and multidimensional concept that’s about more than just physical space. Home for Magona cannot be divorced from place, birthplace, belonging, deprivation, alienation and also the mixing of cultures. InWhen I say place, that means less a geographical locality and more a group of people with whom I am connected and to whom I belong. This is a given, a constant in my life.
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