num_pages: 354
description: Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto. Yet Mark did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" was supposed to dohe escaped to tell about it.
language: English
title: Kaffir Boy: Growing Out of Apartheid
titlecomplete: Kaffir Boy: Growing Out of Apartheid
genres: Autobiography, History, Race, South Africa, Biography Memoir, Africa, Biography, School, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 15872
places: South Africa
publisher: A Plume Book