Introduces the history and culture of the best known of the African peoples, who make up about twenty-five percent of the black population of South Africa.
Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, languages, religions, sports, arts, and people of the country that shares land borders with six nations and surrounds one of them.
Nelson Mandela draws on his own journals, personal letters, and other writings to offer insight into his life, sharing his own thoughts, hardships, accomplishments, and beliefs.
Thirteen-year-old Kim learns the truth about her father and her mother's homeland after visiting South Africa, where she meets relatives and other children her age and witnesses the Truth and Reconciliation Hearings.
Reclusive south African author Clare Wald hires the unknown Sam Leroux as her official biographer but neither person acknowledges their past link that has something to do with Clare's anti-apartheid activist daughter, Laura, who went missing twenty years earlier.
In this memoir, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his mother's religious period, his failed attempt to study commerce in South Africa, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya.
Compares Mahatma Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and advocate for the downtrodden with his goals and expectations for himself and his country, and discusses his disappointments, the hopes that remained unfulfilled at the time of his death, and his legacy.
Journalist Ted Botha, newly arrived in New York from South Africa, tells how he was able to decorate his apartment with furniture he retrieved from the trash, and describes his experiences and the people he met on his scavenging adventures.
Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo travels to Johannesburg on an errand for a friend and to visit his son, Absalom, only to learn Absalom has been accused of murdering white city engineer and social activist Arthur Jarvis and stands very little chance of receiving mercy.
