Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Kaffir Boydoes for apartheid-era South Africa what Richard Wright'sBlack Boydid for the segregated American South. In stark prose, Mathabane describes his  life growing up in a nonwhite ghetto outside Johannesburg--and how he escaped its horrors.  Hard work and faith in education played key roles, and Mathabane eventually won a tennis  scholarship to an American university. This is not, needless to say, an opportunity afforded to many of  the poor blacks who make up most of South Africa's population. And yet Mathabane reveals  their troubled world on these pages in a way that only someone who has lived this life can.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.