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The release of Nelson Mandela

February 11, 1990
2003
A biography of Nelson Mandela, civil rights activist, political prisoner, and president of South Africa, told in the context of his country's modern history.

Move your shadow

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

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.

A long way gone

memoirs of a boy soldier
2008
Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

No more strangers now

young voices from a new South Africa
1998
In their own words, a variety of teenagers from South Africa talk about their years growing up under apartheid, and about the changes now occurring in their country.

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