Kaffir Boy

The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

Paperback, 354 pages

English language

Published Dec. 30, 1986 by Free Press.

ISBN:
978-0-684-84828-0
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An engrossing memoir of survival, enlightenment, and escape. Mark Mathabane's story showed me details about apartheid that I had never read about before, and I was truly shocked and amazed at the severity of the conditions in which he grew up. That Mathabane not only survived, but educated himself and coped so well, is beyond my comprehension.

Subjects

  • Mathabane, Mark
  • Blacks -- South Africa -- Biography
  • Apartheid -- South Africa