Tutu
- 356 pages
- 13 hours of reading
The remarkable story of Desmond Tutu's courage, faith, perseverance, and his life-long commitment to the liberation of the oppressed.
Allister Sparks Books
Allister Haddon Sparks was a South African writer, journalist, and political commentator. He gained prominence as the editor of The Rand Daily Mail, which exposed the Muldergate scandal, revealing secret funding for apartheid government information projects. Sparks authored several acclaimed books detailing South Africa's transition from apartheid. Through his writing, Sparks sought to understand and illuminate the complex political and social transformations of his nation.
Allister Sparks joined his first newspaper at age 17 and was pitched headlong into the vortex of South Africa's stormy politics. The Sword and the Pen is the story of how as a journalist he observed, chronicled and participated in his country's unfolding drama for more than 66 years, covering events from the premiership of DF Malan to the presidency of Jacob Zuma, witnessing at close range the rise and fall of apartheid and the rise and crisis of the new South Africa. In trenchant prose, Sparks has written a remarkable account of both a life lived to its full as well as the surrounding narrative of South Africa from the birth of apartheid, the rise of political opposition, the dawn of democracy, right through to the crisis we are experiencing today.
