Kaffir Boy : The True Story

Zusatztext "Powerful! intense! inspiring." -- Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Mark Mathabane is the author of Kaffir Boy in America, Love in Black and White, and African Women: Three Generations. Klappentext Written with courage and conviction, Mark Mathbane's reveals the extraordinary memoir of growing up in a world under apartheid. B&W photo insert. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Mathabane, Mathabane Mark
• Publisher: Scribner UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1998
• EAN: 9780684848280
• ISBN: 978-0-684-84828-0
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 205 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Südafrika (Republik) : Berichte, Erinnerungen, Autobiographien (div.), Apartheid, USA, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, United States of America, USA, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies