Chapter for Hire

The author must have hired somebody to write this chapter. Have you ever felt like that? You read along, and slowly get into the groove of various characters in the book, joined at the hip by some evil to flood the internet with a virus, then bham! There is this chapter that floats, like a beach ball in high seas.

The author introduces a new character in Chapter 5. He’s different. He is not of the same social class as everyone else in the book. He talks differently because he is the product of hidden America. He’s compulsorily cautious, because history made him so.

The problem is, this chapter is a true reflection of the character’s origin, not withstanding that all economic communities have sub-divisions of inequality intrinsic in them. They could be in the class related to the Queen of England, or working class neighborhoods in the east end of London and Liverpool.

Who wrote this chapter? Somebody must have and I’m sticking to that hunch, because publishers pay French, Canadian or American writers to travel to sunny countries to ‘research’ material for forthcoming books.

Does the advance accommodate a budget for hiring foreign writers for country specific chapters? Foreign includes African American writers because they are outcasts in the land of their forced birth. The police treats them so.

The more I read Chapter 5 is the more I think it was commissioned. How can it be so authentic? If it is, then it means it is well written. Then what is my problem? This uncanny feeling that the author paid someone to deliver that chapter.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.