Kaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid

by Mark Mathabane

Book Overview

Kaffir Boy in America is the sequel to Mark Mathabane's extraordinary autobiography, Kaffir Boy. The story begins with Mathabane's escape from South Africa to the United States, and recounts his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0020345305
• ISBN13: 9780020345305
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Collier Books
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A New Life in America

Kaffir Boy in America is a great book by Mark Mathabane. It is an autobiography about an eighteen year old boy from South Africa, who gets a tennis scholarship in America. Mark is eager to go, so he can leave a place of such disaster. Though he goes through some struggles, all is well at the end. This is a great book about a new life in America!

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Ive never read the book but the first one was good

When believing in oneself pays off

Mark Mathabane tells the story of his first five years in America. He had difficulties fitting into the college scene, where American students often preferred partying to studying and didn't understand his oppressed, impoverished background or appreciate his intense desire to improve himself. As a result, he lost his initial tennis scholarship, changed schools twice, and was near deportation a number of times. Mark believed in himself, and he believed in telling the world about apartheid, which ultimately resulted in his publishing the best-selling "Kaffir Boy." But Mark's success was due in great part to the unwavering support of American tennis player Stan Smith, without whom he would not have had the opportunity to tell his story. God bless Mark AND Stan!