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Kaffir Boy
Kaffir Boy
Author: Mark Mathabane
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 wit...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780451157997
ISBN-10: 0451157990
Publication Date: 2/7/1989
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4.6 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Putnam~mass
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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srfbluemama avatar reviewed Kaffir Boy on + 80 more book reviews
An amazing book about the horrors that were the South African slums during apartheid. His experiences are chilling, and his story of survival and escape are inspiring.
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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. And he also di what no "kaffir" was suppose to do-he escaped to tell about it....


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