Mark Mathabane is an author, lecturer, and former collegiate tennis player. He touched the hearts of millions worldwide with his autobiography, "Kaffir Boy." This true coming-of-age story from apartheid South Africa was translated into several languages and became a bestseller. Mathabane's work highlights the resilience of the human spirit in the face of oppression.
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto. Yet Mark did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" was supposed to dohe escaped to tell about it.
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"Mathabane touched the hearts of millions of people around the world with his powerful memoir, Kaffir Boy, about growing up under apartheid in South Africa and was praised by Oprah Winfrey and Bill Clinton. In his new book, The Lessons of Ubuntu: How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America, Mathabane draws on his experiences with racism and racial healing in both Africa and America, where he has lived for the past thirty-seven years, to provide a timely and provocative approach to the search for solutions to America?s biggest and most intractable social problem: the divide between the races"--Amazon.com