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Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
100 reviews
saskiahill's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Minor: Murder
noahsingh's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Rape, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, and Classism
Minor: Slavery and Suicidal thoughts
theotterside's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Gun violence and Blood
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Classism
amjone12's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Colonisation
peachythi_books's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Violence
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Animal death and Sexism
filipa_maia's review against another edition
4.5
I really enjoyed this book. Is so effortlessly written, almost like a conversation. The story goes back and forth with such grace and detail that the reader feels like its actually a one-on-one talk with Trevor.
Trevor as a very unique way of describing whats around him. Its a very funny, but serious way of telling us what was like to born and live being someone who does not belong. But this book is so much more that just a story about Trevor's life. Is all about a time period that changed an entire country and its people forever. Its very interesting the way this book describes such dark times through the eyes of a child and, later, with the proper interpretation of an adult. More than 30 years after the end of apartheid people still live surrounded by its "ghost"... its not there anymore but its presence is still felt.
Everyone, no matter what your race is, your age, where you are from, should read this book. We all should learn what happened during (and after) apartheid, because when we forget the past we are bound to repeat the same mistakes.
P.S.: I believe there is a quote very similar to this by a philosopher, but this is a saying that I really like.
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Blood, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
_0_'s review against another edition
4.75
Minor: Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and War
madisonfrank's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, and Classism
cnnr876's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Violence
mokey81's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Colonisation