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Kaffir Boy
The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
by Mark Mathabane
ISBN: 0684848287
ISBN-13: 9780684848280
Format: Paperback
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 1998
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.8 pounds
Pages: 354
Publisher's Notes
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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Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Mark Mathabane
Free Press, 1998-10-07. Good. 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. Good, a few underlinings, small ink spot along page edges, otherwise a great copy, clean. 368pp. ( more information) Offered by Driftless Books and Music (United States)
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Kaffir Boy
Mathabane, Mark
Free Press, 1998-10-01. Paperback. New. GREAT Bargain Book Deal - some may have small remainder mark - Ships out by NEXT Business Day - 100% Satisfaction Guarantee! ( more information) Offered by BookCloseouts.com (Canada)
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Kaffir Boy - The True Story Of A Black Youth's Coming Of Age In Apartheid South Africa
Mathabane, Mark
New York NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998. The textblock of this studied and backpacked trade paperback is very clean, uncreased, square and carries no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. The covers are very clean, bright and show only very minor finish rubbing and corner bumping, and the front cover shows curling.. First Trade Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Not Issued With Dustjacket. ( more information) Offered by The Book Shop (United States)
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Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Mark Mathabane
Free Press, 1998-10-07. Paperback. New. Paperback. This copy is nearly flawless! You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now!!! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again!!!! ( more information) Offered by International Book Source (United States)
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KAFFIR BOY: An Autobiography
Mathabane, Mark
New York: Free Press, (1987.) . Trade paperback. . Fine condition . The story of a black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa. Photographs. Index. 354 pgs. ( more information) Offered by bookfever.com (United States)
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Kaffir Boy (Qty: 25)
Mathabane, Mark
Paperback. Brand New. -. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. . ( more information) Offered by Books and More by the Rowe (United States)
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Kaffir Boy
Mathebane, Mark
S&S, 2006. Paperback. ( more information) Offered by Read Ireland (Ireland)
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