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Kaffir Boy: Growing Out of Apartheid Book

Kaffir Boy does for apartheid-era South Africa what Richard Wright's Black Boy did for the segregated American South. In stark prose, Mathabane describes his life growing up in a nonwhite ghetto outside Johannesburg--and how he escaped its horrors. Hard work and faith in education played key roles, and Mathabane eventually won a tennis scholarship to an American university. This is not, needless to say, an opportunity afforded to many of the poor blacks who make up most of South Africa's population. And yet Mathabane reveals their troubled world on these pages in a way that only someone who has lived this life can.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Unique first-person account of growing up black under apartheid.

  • 0370310586
  • 9780370310589
  • Mark Mathabane
  • 23 April 1987
  • The Bodley Head Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 354
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