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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 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,

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A wide-ranging collection of essays addressing the work of contemporary international women playwrights, this book foregrounds the diversity and power of women's playwriting since 1990, highlighting key voices, analyzing a wide range of works, and exploring crucial critical and theoretical developments within the field.

Does Homosexuality Remain the Greatest Taboo in Black Culture? Is Homosexuality a European Cultural Imposition on Africans? Are You Black First or Queer? Delroy Constantine-Simms has compiled 28 powerful, provocative essays from academics and writers of all ethnic heritages, genders, and sexualities, including bell hooks, Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Seth Clark Silberman, Gregory Conerly, and Gloria Wekker, to explore the often volatile relationship black...

This historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offers an unprecedented insight into Mandela's remarkable life--from his first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage.

"The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one mans coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed,"--Amazon.com.

Traces the origins of apartheid, the struggle against it, and the changes in South African society that brought about its end.

A biography of Nelson Mandela, who spent twenty-seven years in jail for his political beliefs, focusing on his fight against apartheid, South Africa's system of segregation and oppression based on color.

Reading level: M [purple].