Kaffir boy in America
The story begins with Mathabane's escape from South Africa to the U.S., and recounts his coming of age in a country overwhelming in its immensity, luxuriousness, poverty and despair. From his early college days when he first discovered the great black American writers to his emergence as the voice of a new generation, from his reflections on America's racial and social justice to his celebration of its basic freedoms, Kaffir Boy in America is a moving saga of hardship and determination, insight and inspiration, informed, above all, by Mathabane's compassion for his fellow man.