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About 31 pages (9,215 words) in 3 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
6,042 words, approx. 20 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... summary from source:
Biography of Mark Mathabane
2,921 words, approx. 10 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... 
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 Mark Mathabane Information
252 words, approx. 1 pages
 Mark Mathabane (born Johannes Mathabane, October 18, 1960) is a tennis player, author, and lecturer. He was born in Alexandra, Gauteng, South Africa. As he explains in his autobiographical book Kaffir Boy, Mathabane survived the oppressive environment...
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 The Washington Post The Americanization of Mark Mathabane
05/28/1989: 794 words, approx. 3 pages KAFFIR BOY IN AMERICA By Mark Mathabane Scribner. 288 pp. $19.95 THREE YEARS ago in these pages, I lavishly praised Mark Mathabane's Kaffir Boy, a visceral account of the author's childhood and adolescence in Alexandra, a black ghetto outside of Johannesburg.... summary from source:
The Washington Post MARK MATHABANE, the author of ...
04/28/2002: 455 words, approx. 2 pages MARK MATHABANE, the author of "Kaffir Boy," writes and lectures on human rights and education. I'm convinced that, to find a way out of the present impasse, the Israelis and Palestinians must embrace the concept that helped bring a peaceful end to apartheid... 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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