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A Black writer describes his childhood in South Africa under apartheid and recounts how Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith helped him leave for America on a tennis scholarship
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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.
About the Author
MARK MATHABANE was born and raised in the ghetto of Alexandra in South Africa. He is the author of Kaffir Boy, Kaffir Boy in America, Love in Black and White, African Women: Three Generations, Miriam's Song, and The Proud Liberal. He lectures at schools and colleges nationwide on race relations, education, and our common humanity. He lives with his family in Portland, Oregon.
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0025818007
- ISBN 13 9780025818002
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages354
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1986. Macmillan. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0025818007. 352 pages. hardcover. Front-of-jacket photograph by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter. keywords: Africa South Africa History Autobiography. DESCRIPTION - In the tradition of Richard Wright's Native Son - Mark Mathabane's searing account of growing up black in South Africa is a unique and remarkable memoir of life under apartheid. Centered on his boyhood in the shantytown of Alexandra, ten miles from Johannesburg, Mathabane's story describes his struggle to survive beatings, devastating poverty, and the endless humiliation that drove him to the brink of suicide at the age of ten. He tells of his desperate search to find a moral center in an immoral world, and he reveals the redeeming power of love. Compellingly authentic and personal, Kaffir Boy transcends today's press and television coverage in its revelations of how a black and his family prevailed over relentless squalor and cruelty. There are Mathabane's extraordinary grandmother, tormented father, and illiterate mother, who is resolute in her dream of educating her son. All are unforgettable. Luck, talent, and pure chance - through the help of Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith - finally enabled Mathabane to leave on a tennis scholarship to America. Once in the free world, his gift for writing flourished. Now, Mark Mathabane makes us weep for the millions of South African blacks still in bondage. It is a story that will hold you in an emotional hammerlock from first page to last. Mark Mathabane, twenty-five, now resides in New York City and is a much sought-after speaker on his homeland, where his family remains. inventory #97. Seller Inventory # z97
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