"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 ...
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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 ...
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Mark Mathabane