Sophiatown
Subtitle: coming of age in South Africa
By: Don Mattera.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Mattera, Don, 1935-; Poets, South African -- 20th century -- Biography.; Journalists -- South Africa -- Biography.; Colored people (South Africa) -- Politics and government.; Sophiatown (Johannesburg, South Africa) -- Biography.; Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Biography.; South Africa -- Race relations.
Description: "A first-person account of the rise to political consciousness and activism of a notorious gang leader from the turbulent ghetto near Johannesburg, where blacks and whites lived side by side. [Mattera] writes powerfully of his wretched life as a wild young man, of his people's struggle for liberation and of his own conversion from violence to the use of peaceful methods. He provides a searing view of a troubled land"--Publisher's Weekly.
Notes: British ed. published under title: Gone with the twilight.