Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography
Author: Mark Mathabane
I am always asked to explain what it felt like to grow up black under South Africa’s system of legalized racism known as apartheid, and how I escaped from it and ended up in America. This book is the most thorough answer I have heretofore given. The last thing I ever dreamed of when I was daily battling for survival and for an identity other than that of inferiority and fo….Read More
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