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Fisha Nekongo
My name is Nekongo Nekongo, Fisha is my childhood name.
I was born on the thirteenth of September 1983 in Luderitz, a small coastal town south of Namibia on the African continent. My father was a ...view moreMy name is Nekongo Nekongo, Fisha is my childhood name.
I was born on the thirteenth of September 1983 in Luderitz, a small coastal town south of Namibia on the African continent. My father was a baker, but is now a subsistence farmer, and my mother was unemployed. They married before I was born and divorced when I was about seven years old. I’m the first born of my parents and have two younger brothers and three sisters. I grew up mostly with my father in Luderitz.
My mother, who I don’t really know well, was mostly at the village. She succumbed to breast cancer in 2014. I knew very little about my mother. Everything I have learned I owe to my father who, although an uneducated man in the classroom due to lack of opportunity in his youthful years, is naturally a wise man who believes in the need to educate people.
I studied and completed my high school in Luderitz and went further to study at a college in another town. Due to financial constraints, I couldn’t go to the University of Namibia in the capital city where I was accepted after I had finished grade twelve when my father’s job closed down. Growing up I always wanted to be a professional football player or a rapper.
I was influenced by Tupac and Nas (American rappers) as a child. I was fascinated at how they rapped about real-life situations, and therefore my stories are all about real life situations mixed with fiction.
I was a good midfield player and had won numerous medals in the Diamond soccer league at Luderitz where I played for a club called Diamond City Football Club ever since I was about twelve years old. I, however, stopped playing when I was twenty years old as I found Namibian soccer not competent enough to make a career out of it.
I started writing short stories when I was twelve years old, but only as an occasional hobby for English classes, for creative writing, or as assignments. I stopped writing when I was in eighth grade.
On second of September 2014, I accidentally started writing my first novel “Reasonable Doubt” on a laptop that I wasn’t really comfortable to write with. I simply felt bored on that day and decided to write something, so Reasonable Doubt came up. I finished writing the novel in three months’ time, then followed by several short stories that I wrote using my smart phone. It was more comfortable, so I usually finish in a week or in a few days. Some of the short stories I wrote were lost when my phone got lost before saving the short stories in my email (risky part).
I never thought writing stories was something I could make a career out of, but I always knew I am capable of writing stories. I do not believe in talents. I believe people work hard to get things right, and writing is about working hard to study life and then put that experience into a story.
The stories I write are especially dedicated to a close friend of mine named Frans Awene, a very brilliant human being whom I had never ceased to learn from. We have always been fans of knowledge.
For now, in brief, I am an aspiring author and a businessman.
(Will send my picture separately A.S.A.P, plus three more short stories: With Snow white, National Natives and Rosa’s New Song) NB: the original title of With Snow White was ‘Burned Cakes’.view less