# Kaffir Boy, Vol. 1

By **Mark Mathabane**

- ISBN-13: 9780025818002
- Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 354
- Published: 1 Mar 1986
- Categories: Biography, American literature, Apartheid, Blacks, South africa, biography, Blacks, south africa, Social conditions, Erlebnisbericht, Rassenkonflikt, Black people, Study and teaching (Secondary), South Africa

## About this book

Kaffir Boy is a powerful biography and a work of American literature that documents the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa. This first volume focuses on the harsh social conditions and racial conflict within the black ghettos of Alexandra. Mark Mathabane provides a firsthand account of growing up under a systemic regime of oppression and segregation.

The narrative explores the struggle for education and survival amidst the volatile environment of South Africa. As a detailed biography, Kaffir Boy examines the lived experience of Black people facing institutionalized racism. This account serves as a significant study of the racial tensions and social structures that defined the era, offering an intimate look at the resilience required to overcome such adversity.

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