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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Paperback - 1998

by Mark Mathabane

Written with courage and conviction, Mark Mathbane's reveals the extraordinary memoir of growing up in a world under apartheid. B&W photo insert.


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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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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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  • Title Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
  • Author Mark Mathabane
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Free Press, New York
  • Date 1998-10-07
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780684848280 / 0684848287
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.52 x 0.92 in (21.08 x 14.02 x 2.34 cm)
  • Reading level 970
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southern Africa
    • Ethnic Orientation: African
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects South Africa, Blacks
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98025240
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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"Powerful, intense, inspiring." -- Publishers Weekly

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