south africa

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south africa

The apartheid handbook

1985
On cover: A guide to South Africa's everybody racial policies. Describes the theory and practice of South Africa's apartheid policy.

Apartheid's rebels

inside South Africa's hidden war
1987
Describes the growing strength of Apartheid's guerrilla rebels and the underground resistance war waged by the African National Congress.

Crocodile burning

1992
Hoping to earn the money to get his brother out of prison, Seraki joins the cast of a musical written to express rage at conditions in their South African township and travels to perform it in New York.

No tigers in Africa

a novel
1992
Newly arrived in England from South Africa, a fifteen-year-old's family deteriorates, as the effects of living under apartheid take a toll on every aspect of the family members' lives.

Black women activists

2004
Details the history of African American women in the civil rights and abolitionist movements from the 19th century to the present day. Includes information on such figures as Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Marian Wright Edelman and Maxine Waters.

Black fairy tales

1969
Princes, princesses, kings, and queens wear beautiful animal skins, live in kraals, and meet fearful orges in these ten fairy tales from the Swazi, Shangani, and 'Msuto peoples of South Africa.

Mandela

echoes of an era
1990

Beyond the barricades

popular resistance in South Africa
1989
Published in conjunction with the exhibition, South Africa under Apartheid. Photographs and personal accounts of resistance in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela

2005
Presents an introduction to the life of Nelson Mandela, a civil rights activist who opposed apartheid in South Africa, and became the country's president in 1994.

Gift of the sun

a tale from South Africa
1996
Tired of milking when he would rather bask in the sun, Thulani sells the cow and begins a series of exchanges that results in a sunflower crop and prosperity.

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