After the Fires: Unlocking the Power of Letting Go

Nozipho Tshabalala is a high-performing, excellence-driven, successful black woman. Being in control of everything in her life was crucial to her survival

and success. For the most part, it had always served her well – until it didn’t. In this captivating and deeply personal memoir, conversation strategist

Nozipho invites you into her world – one shaped by political violence, professional triumphs on global stages and the intimate battles with loss that

would test her most fundamental beliefs. Now in her 40s, she has realised that what she needed most to survive may not be what she needs to thrive.

After the Fires is a call to reclaim the narrative amid life’s unexpected turns. It honours the complexity of womanhood while celebrating the possibility of

becoming exactly who you were meant to be, even when that person looks nothing like what you imagined. With vulnerability and wisdom, Nozipho demonstrates how surrender becomes not an act of defeat but a pathway to freedom. Her story reminds us that sometimes our greatest strength lies not in holding tighter but in opening our hands to release what no longer serves us.

© 2025 Jonathan Ball Publishers (Audiobook): 9781776195381

Release date

Audiobook: 11 September 2025