Ketso Madonsela is a literary entertainer who is driven by the purpose of connecting with an audience through words and performance. Ketso’s literary entertainment is fiction – it aims to create a fantasy – however, not unbelievably far-fetched. Ketso’s writing ranges from romance to reality of the ‘new middle class’.

Ketso is a young professional working in the corporate space. She is passionate about writing and nurtures her talent consistently. Ketso is also a stage production writer and looks forward to breaking boundaries in the writing space, writing for entertainment and purpose.

Ketso’s first novel is “My Worth Crowned You”. My Worth Crowned You is a novel that locates the new black middle class individual in his/her ‘belonging’ in 2018’s society; somewhere between modernity, western education, and black culture. The setting of the story is in a fictional kingdom, Tholoana Kingdom. Tholoana Kingdom is rich with culture, locates culture above all else, and centres its entire existence on culture. It is a kingdom that is under the rule of King Mohato Mohale – Kearabetswe’s husband.

Kearabetswe is educated outside of Tholoana Kingdom and under western education, therefore being in possession of a Master’s degree in journalism. She was born in Tholoana Kingdom but practically grew up in Johannesburg where she attended boarding school as well as university. After years of all of this education, she – like many other graduates – was looking forward to being a graduate in some company out there or a young professional. But her family had other plans for her. And these plans led her back home to Tholoana Kingdom and forcefully married off to King Mohato Mohale.

Her marriage is all kinds of challenges because of the unavoidable clash that continuously happens between modernity (Kea’s education and shift in her way of thinking and comprehending as a result of her strong educational background) and cultural beliefs (Mohato’s way of ruling the Kingdom being solely based on his cultural education that remains untainted by western ideologies).