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Mark Mathabane
ASIN: B004XDYRDG
Publisher: New Millennium Books
Pages: 378

"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." -- Chicago TribuneMark 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 cross the line between black and white and win a scholarship to an American university. This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is itself a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation. ...
Amazon Rating:
5 stars from 540 ratings