Kaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid by Mark Mathabane

Kaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid

Mark Mathabane

303 pages first pub 1986 (view editions)

nonfiction autobiography challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Kaffir Boy in America is ideal for the reflective reader who welcomes an emotionally demanding, deliberately paced account of extreme systemic oppression and personal transcendence.

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The Classic Story of Life 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 pa...

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4.11
based on 1,101 reviews

Moods

emotional: 78%

dark: 58%

challenging: 56%

inspiring: 56%

informative: 53%

sad: 46%

reflective: 43%

hopeful: 36%

tense: 24%

funny: 4%

adventurous: 2%


Pace

10% of readers chose fast
66% of readers chose medium
23% of readers chose slow
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