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Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane (1998, Trade Paperback)

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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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Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
0684848287
ISBN-13
9780684848280
eBay Product ID (ePID)
736656

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Book Title
Kaffir Boy : the True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Author
Mark Mathabane
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, General, Black Studies (Global), Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.7 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Dt1949.M38a3 1998
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"Like . . . Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land . . . in every way as important and exciting."-- The Washington Post, Chicago TribuneThis is a rare look inside the festering adobe shanties of Alexandra, one of South Africa's notorious black townships. Rare because it comes...from the heart of a passionate young African who grew up there., "This is a rare look inside the festering adobe shanties of Alexandra, one of South Africa's notorious black townships. Rare because it comes . . . from the heart of a passionate young African who grew up there."--Chicago Tribune, "This is a rare look inside the festering adobe shanties of Alexandra, one of South Africa's notorious black townships. Rare because it comes . . . from the heart of a passionate young African who grew up there." -- Chicago Tribune, "Like . . . Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land . . . in every way as important and exciting." -- The Washington Post, "Like . . . Claude Brown'sManchild in the Promised Land. . . in every way as important and exciting."--The Washington Post
Copyright Date
1998
Lccn
98-025240
Dewey Decimal
968.004960092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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5 out of 5 stars
by ccexpress092009May 02, 2011
remarkable
The author's life story is truly remarkable, for he overcame obstacles that were unimaginably daunting. First, he had the misfortune to be born into a family headed by illiterate parents who did not have the means to pay for his schooling and were really not even able to afford their rent or daily sustenance for the family (their average combined annual income was $600 a year). Second, he had to grow up in a lousy little shack in the miserable rat-infested black township of Alexandra, where he always had to fear nighttime police raids, enforcement of pass laws, dangerous gangs and possible deportation to a tribal reserve. Third, he had to battle the depression that naturally results from living in hopeless poverty inside a country with the legalized form of racism known as apartheid.
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by olgacotto.571Sep 07, 2021
Great Book - Kaffir Boy
I read this book many years ago and decided to give my granddaughter a copy. It's a excellent book!
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by Md1nhKsLQAO@Del...Jun 04, 2007
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (1998)
One fantastic autobiography! I could hardly lay the book down! Extremely well written and extremely graphic and very well described.If one doesn't understand "apartheid" then you will after reading the book. In-depth insite to the life of a black African boy and his family in a slum city in South Africa. Unimaginable pain and suffering endured in that place, caused by the government and the so called "police", the poverty, the hunger.Unbelieveable one can be jailed for simply losing their meager job! If nothing touches your heart....Kaffir Boy will.
5 out of 5 stars
by zk6rwvgctms@del...Oct 30, 2007
Kaffir Boy reveals the chilling truth of apartheid SA
I have never read an autobiography (or a book of any kind) that has made such an enormous impact on my life. Mark Mathabane writes his own life story from a detached perspective and it is impossible to put down. One has to keep reminding himself that this is not a piece of fiction but actually the story of someone's life. This autobioraphy is powerfully raw. Everyone needs to read "Kaffir Boy."
5 out of 5 stars
by jeanniejavMay 10, 2017
Excellent autobiography
Compelling, interesting, reality of apartheid.
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Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane (1998, Trade Paperback)

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