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Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa, Mark Mathabane

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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, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university. This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation, for Mark Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" from the rat-infested alleys of Alexandra was supposed to do--he escaped to tell about it
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Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa
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Kaffir boy
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the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa
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Mark Mathabane
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Language
eng
Summary
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, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university. This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation, for Mark Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" from the rat-infested alleys of Alexandra was supposed to do--he escaped to tell about it
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Mathabane, Mark
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968/.00496/0092
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autobiography
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  • Mathabane, Mark
  • Apartheid
  • Black people
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adult
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Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa, Mark Mathabane
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  • OverDrive Audiobook
  • Unabridged
  • Duration: 18:33:27
  • Electronic resource
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1 sound file (18 hr., 33 min., 27 sec.)
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online
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9781455157266
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sound
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  • other
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  • (OCoLC)811060887
  • ocn811060887
  • OCoLC
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  • Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 266702 KB; MP3 file size: 522081 KB)
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Label
Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa, Mark Mathabane
Link
Publication
Note
  • OverDrive Audiobook
  • Unabridged
  • Duration: 18:33:27
  • Electronic resource
Antecedent source
unknown
Capture and storage technique
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
not applicable
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
spoken word
Content type code
  • spw
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
  • not applicable
  • unknown
Extent
1 sound file (18 hr., 33 min., 27 sec.)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781455157266
Isbn Type
(electronic audio bk.)
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
not applicable
Kind of material
unknown
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
sound
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
Speed
unknown
System control number
  • (OCoLC)811060887
  • ocn811060887
  • OCoLC
System details
  • Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 266702 KB; MP3 file size: 522081 KB)
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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