Kaffir Boy The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

Name: Kaffir Boy The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
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ISBN: 9780684848280

ISBN-10: 0684848287

ISBN-13: 9780684848280

Edition: 1998

Authors: Mark Mathabane

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 10/7/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792

Mark Mathabane is the author of Kaffir Boy in America, Love in Black and White, and African Women: Three Generations.



Preface



The Road to Alexandra



Passport to Knowledge



Passport to Freedom


Index