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This memoir provides an intimate perspective on South Africa's Apartheid history.Read More

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    Margaret McCord makes brilliant use of telling details drawn from the vivid recollections of Makanya (1873-1954) to create a rich tapestry of black South African life as it uneasily adapted to (and sometimes adopted) white European ways during the years of colonization and the establishment of apartheid. Makanya declined the offer of a singing career in England to return home, choosing hard work and poverty among her own people. She offers perceptive descriptions of complex individual and social relationships that work by an accumulation of particulars to damningly indict injustice.

  • Product Description

    Winner of the Johannesburg Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize for Nonfiction

    Discover a people's enduring power through the inspiring life of a fascinating woman.

    Critical acclaim for The Calling of Katie Makanya

    "A very marvelous and precious document. . . . It is a magnificent story superbly told. The combination of Katie's extraordinary life and McCord's immense talent as a storyteller is overwhelming. I found it compulsive reading and deeply moving." —Athol Fugard.

    "I fell in love with the Delaney sisters, enjoying both the book and the play. It is good to know their sister in Africa also has her say, that Katie's life, too, can be shared." —Nikki Giovanni.

    "To know the story of Katie Makanya is to feel the pain and promise of life for blacks in South Africa for generations." —Detroit Free Press.

    "Emotionally compelling, resonantly detailed, and of extraordinary cultural significance." —Kirkus Reviews.

  • 0471246913
  • 9780471246916
  • Margaret McCord
  • 26 February 1998
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • New edition
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