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Movie Adaptation of the work, "Maya: Initiate 39"
Chimezie Ihekuna

Mar 12 (5 days ago)

Maya was raised single-handedly by her ‘"father," Samuel, who

divorced his wife, Cynthia, years ago, on grounds of infidelity,

before she turned three years. Growing up in Durban was mixed with the

good, bad and ugly for Maya.

Influenced by Craig, her schoolmate, Maya went into the underworld

endeavors of stealing, drug trafficking and prostitution under the

cover of a very-perverse juvenile assembly, called the Alternative

lifestyle Club (The ALC). She joined the club in the very pursuit of

what she called her “destiny”…

By initiating "39", what was necessary for the functionality of the

ALC, she went became popular among many top-notch Southern Africans.

But, after several disappointments, Maya thought she could use her

“connects” to bite the fingers that fed her by carrying out the

assignments given to her own way- a way of letting the organization

know that she was no push-over. But that was not the case!

Consequently, Craig and Ms. Diana, the active players of the club, led

this juvenile to her doom-they set her up and the police did the rest.

The long arms of the law landed her prison in Johannesburg. It was in

the prison she knew changing for the better would be appropriate.

Through the favor from Van Brussels, a rich gold merchant, school

owner and chairman of the Louisville Shipping Company, whom she had

done some wrong in the past, Maya was released from prison before the

stipulated prison sentence, sent to the United States for Secretarial

studies, worked in his company, Louisville Shipping Company, for a

couple of years and soon returned to her native Durban home in South

Africa with her husband, Daniel Young, to find her ‘father’ whom she

left for years.

Maya became the woman of substance; her fame and enterprise rose to

the corporate ladder. But before then, something really happened….