Kaffir Boy
by Mark Mathabane
Growing up Black under apartheid, from the inside.
you want to understand what daily life under apartheid actually felt like for a Black child living inside it
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Mathabane grew up in Alexandra township in the 1960s and 70s — extreme poverty, police raids, pass laws, the daily machinery of apartheid operating on his family's bodies. Tennis became his escape route. This memoir is the dispatch from inside a childhood that the apartheid system was specifically designed to crush — honest about the violence, the hunger, the education that was engineered to produce servitude. One of the most widely read firsthand accounts of apartheid from a Black South African perspective.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- South Africa • Southern Africa
- Voice
- Written by a South African author
- Themes
- True Cost of EmpireAfter EmpireWitness
