apartheid

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Nelson Mandela

leader against apartheid
2003
A biography of Nelson Mandela, who spent twenty-seven years in jail for his political beliefs, focusing on his fight against apartheid, South Africa's system of segregation and oppression based on color.

Kaffir boy

the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa
1986
Recreates the author's boyhood experiences in South Africa.

Move your shadow

South Africa Black and White
1985
Provides a look at the South African way of life and racial policy.

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.

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.

Apartheid

calibrations of color
1991
Essays, fiction, and photographs address different aspects of apartheid.

Statements

Sizwe Bansi is dead ; The island
1986
Presents three plays written in the early seventies by South African dramatist Athol Fugard in which he explores life under the laws of apartheid.

The smell of apples

1995
Tells the story of eleven-year-old Manus, a young white boy in 1970s South Africa, whose illusions about his happy family are shattered by the arrival of a stranger, interwoven with entries by Manus as an adult, fighting another country's war.

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