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...
"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...
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...
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....
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...
An 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...
