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About 124 pages (37,276 words) in 11 products |
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| Name: |
Mark Mathabane | | Birth Date: |
1960 | | Place of Birth: |
Alexandra, South Africa | | Nationality: |
South African | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
Writer, Lecturer |
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 Biography of Mark Mathabane
6042 words, approx. 20.1 pages
 Kaffir Boy, Mathabane's first book, detailed the brutal hardship of growing up black in South Africa. A driven student and gifted tennis player, Mathabane came to the attention of American tennis pro Stan Smith who helped him secure college scholarships... summary from source:
Biography of Mark Mathabane
2921 words, approx. 9.7 pages
"What television newscasts did to expose the horrors of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, books like Kaffir Boy may well do for the horrors of apartheid in `80s," Diane Manuel predicted in a 1986 Chicago Tribune Book World review of Kaffir Boy: The True Stor...
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 Kaffir Boy is Mark Mathabane's 1986 autobiography about life under the South African apartheid regime. It focuses on the brutality of the apartheid system and how he escaped from it, and from the township Alexandra, to become a well-known tennis player....
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 The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) OF "KAFFIR BOY," MARK MATHABANE, TO SPEAK AT LIBRARY.(PEOPLE & PLACES)
01/03/2001: 648 words, approx. 2 pages South African writer Mark Mathabane, author of the best-selling autobiography "Kaffir Boy," will speak at the Central Branch of the Greensboro Public Library, 219 N. Church. St., at 7 p.m. on Feb. 23. The lecture will be open to the public. Mathabane, who... summary from source:
The Washington Post Kaffir Lime Leaves
03/26/2003: 1,033 words, approx. 3 pages This week's look at what's new, mysterious or bountiful in the produce aisles. The kaffir lime is a pear-shaped, gnarled citrus fruit whose leaves are a key ingredient in Thai cooking (so is the fruit itself, and its rind, but we'll focus here... summary from source:
 AP News `Kaffir Boy' banned from a middle school
4/13/2007: 354 words, approx. 1 pagesAn award-winning memoir about growing up poor and black in apartheid-era South Africa was banned from an intermediate school after a parent complained about a two-paragraph scene of men paying hungry boys for sex.Superintendent Sonny Da Marto ordered an eighth-grade teacher to stop using "Kaffir...
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Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane | |
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About 124 pages (37,276 words) in 11 products |
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