The Midnight Intruder: Surviving Gwedu

By: Milioti, Isaac

She was eleven years old when the hand came over her mouth.
In a rural Zambian village, the night drums warn of gwedu-men who enter girls' huts while they sleep. Thandiwe Banda wakes to a stranger's weight on her body, a whispered threat against her sister, and a choice: stay silent or fight.

She bites. She screams. She survives.
But survival is only the beginning. The village elders want her to forget. The man who attacked her hides behind a wall of silence. The law is two days' walk away.

With the help of a teacher, a policewoman, and a woman in a blue vest who teaches girls that their bodies belong to them, Thandiwe becomes the voice her village tried to bury.

The Midnight Intruder is a harrowing and hopeful novel about one girl's fight for justice-and the movement that grew from her courage.
Inspired by real practices in rural Zambia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWZQRQWG
• ISBN13: 9798257093838
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"