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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

1986; Council on Foreign Relations; Volume: 64; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/20042853

2327-7793

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker, Mark Mathabane,

South African History and Culture

Mark Mathabane's Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa was the first widely published South African autobiography written in English by a black native. Macmillan's initial 1986 American publication stunned readers in much the same way Frederick Douglass's 1845 slave narrative had, forcing many to rethink American support of South African business and government. Earlier,