In this powerful account of growing up black in South Africa, a young writer makes us feel intensely the horrors of apartheid. Living illegally in a shanty outside Johannesburg, Johannes (renamed Mark ...

South African writer Mark Mathabane, author of the best-selling autobiography "Kaffir Boy," will discuss his new novel, "The Proud Liberal," at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, at the Carl A. Fields Center for ...

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Citing his concern for "the morals of our society," Burlingame schools Superintendent Sonny Da Marto has stopped four eighth-grade classes from reading "Kaffir Boy," an award-winning memoir of growing ...

Winds gust across the field at the Lincoln High School track, and dark, swollen clouds passing over the West Hills portend rain. Boru Guyota gazes upon the empty space in front of him. His lungs burn ...

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. — The Thief River Falls School District will offer an edited version of the book “Kaffir Boy,” by Mark Mathabane after parents objected to the original. The School Board made ...

BURLINGAME — The author of a book that caused an uproar in the Burlingame School District because of a controversial passage shared his experiences Monday night about growing up black in South Africa ...

VENICE -- On the cold nights of his childhood, Mark Mathabane slept in a bed of cardboard, huddled under newspaper for warmth. There was so little food in his shack in the ghettos of South Africa that ...

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