Mark Mathabane est un auteur, conférencier et ancien joueur de tennis universitaire. Il a touché le cœur de millions de personnes dans le monde avec son autobiographie, « Kaffir Boy ». Ce récit d'initiation autobiographique sur l'Afrique du Sud de l'apartheid a été traduit en plusieurs langues et est devenu un best-seller. L'œuvre de Mathabane souligne la résilience de l'esprit humain face à l'oppression.
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto. Yet Mark did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" was supposed to dohe escaped to tell about it.
An interracial couple share how they were able to overcome their own prejudices and considerable social pressure to forge a healthy marriage and family, despite the odds. By the author of Kaffir Boy. Reprint. National ad/promo.
"Mathabane touched the hearts of millions of people around the world with his powerful memoir, Kaffir Boy, about growing up under apartheid in South Africa and was praised by Oprah Winfrey and Bill Clinton. In his new book, The Lessons of Ubuntu: How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America, Mathabane draws on his experiences with racism and racial healing in both Africa and America, where he has lived for the past thirty-seven years, to provide a timely and provocative approach to the search for solutions to America?s biggest and most intractable social problem: the divide between the races"--Amazon.com