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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When he was 10, Mark Mathabane watched a man being hacked to death in a neighbor`s back yard. His childhood was spent in the South African township of Alexandra, dodging police raids, eating leeches ...

When Mark Mathabane was growing up in South Africa, the apartheid government forbade the reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Now, 40 years later, San Luis Obispo High School is ...

Five weeks after his book "Kaffir Boy" was abruptly removed from eighth-grade classrooms in Burlingame, author Mark Mathabane visited the students on Tuesday to talk about hard choices of all kinds.

Love in Black and White, by Mark Mathabane and Gail Mathabane, HarperCollins, $20, 262pp. How could a black man whose growth to manhood was hampered at every turn by the system of apartheid in his ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Mark Mathabane is with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1993 Congressional News Conference. Mark Mathabane talked about his book, Miriam’s ...

Miriam Mathabane grew up in a black township of South Africa toward the end of apartheid. This book, a memoir, was told to her older brother Mark Mathabane, author of “Kaffir Boy.” The details of ...

A South African man’s story about his escape from apartheid has parents in a local school district debating whether the required reading is pornography or valuable literature. The debate is forcing ...