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Kaffir Boy

The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

Author: Mark Mathabane  

Kaffir Boy
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Offers an account of the brutality and degradation black people suffered under the apartheid regime. This work is a memoir of growing up in a world where poverty, hopelessness, and desperation are constant companions. It reveals the triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable disgrace.

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Offers an account of the brutality and degradation black people suffered under the apartheid regime. This work is a memoir of growing up in a world where poverty, hopelessness, and desperation are constant companions. It reveals the triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable disgrace.

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This is an extraordinary and powerful account of the brutality and degradation black people suffered under the apartheid regime. A recognised classic, Mark Mathabane's remarkable story of life under apartheid is told with remarkable and relentless honesty. The reader is given a rare personal glimpse behind the televised protests and boycotts and into the daily fear and hunger which was so devastating. Often compared to Richard Wright's "Black Boy" and Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man", "Kaffir Boy" is a memoir of growing up in a world where poverty, hopelessness, and desperation are constant companions. Written with courage and conviction, Mathabane reveals the ultimate triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable disgrace.

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Critic Reviews

“"This is a rare look inside the festering adobe shanties of Alexandra, one of South Africa's notorious black townships. Rare because it comes . . . from the heart of a passionate young African who grew up there."--Chicago Tribune”

"Like Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land...In every way as important and as exciting." - The Washington Post "This searing autobiography draws readers into the turmoil, terror and sad stratagems for survival in a black township." - Foreign Affairs "Powerful, intense, inspiring." - Publishers Weekly "A rare look inside the festering adobe shanties of Alexandra. Rare because it comes from the heart of a passionate young African who grew up there." - Chicago Tribune "Compelling, chilling, authentic...an emotionally charged explanation." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"

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About the Author

Mark Mathabane is a bestselling author and lecturer. He is also the author of Miriam's Song and Kaffir Boy in America. He lives in North Carolina.

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The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university. This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation. For Mark Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" from the rat-infested alleys of Alexandra was supposed to do -- he escaped to tell about it.

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Product Details

Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd | Scribner
Published
31st December 2016
Pages
368
ISBN
9780684848280

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