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The storytelling is superb. - Goodreads The writing here is not great. - Goodreads Good insight into what apartheid really was. - Goodreads The book was very depressing but also educational. - Goodreads This book is very long and has a complicated plot. - Goodreads User Review - Flag as inappropriate A powerful book. A look at what poor and poverty stricken really means, in ways that most of us cannot fathom. I was really moved by this book and was inspired by the hunger and thirst for knowledge that drove this boy to persevere. It makes you think about what we complain about in this country. (Just to get permission to attend school, this boys mother/grandmother had to get up before dawn and walk for miles to wait in line to see a commissioner to get a birth certificate...only to be shut down just before she gets to the window..then, to get up again the next morning to do it all over again.) Think we would do that? An incredible story..and I was fortunate two years ago to hear this man speak at Tarleton. Review: Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South AfricaUser Review - Sue - GoodreadsThe author grew up in Alexandra, one of the ghetto communities during the time of apartheid. His mother believed that education would be a way out of the ghetto life and encouraged him with school. He ... Read full review Related books
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