Oshkosh Public Library

Kaffir boy, the true story of a black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa, by Mark Mathabane

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Kaffir boy

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by Mark Mathabane

the true story of a black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa

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 Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education escaped to tell about it

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