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HOME Order Books Arrange Lectures Free Articles Sponsor a Student Order Serialized Chapters The Poet's Corner Famous Speeches Vocabulary Builder World News PREFACES Kaffir Boy Miriam's Song African Women Love in Black & White Deadly Memory The Last Liberal FIRST CHAPTERS Kaffir Boy Ubuntu Kaffir Boy in America Miriam's Song African Women Love in Black & White Deadly Memory The Last Liberal DUST-JACKET & REVIEWS Kaffir Boy Kaffir Boy in America African Women Love in Black & White CONTACT E-mail Feedback Author's Bio		AFRICAN WOMEN DUST JACKET The South African, nonfiction version of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale...These stories show us that women's spirits refuse to be imprisoned forever." —The Boston Globe "What courage it took for these three black South African women to tell their stories — and to live their lives! — and for Mark Mathabane to weave their individual stories into this book." — Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University professor and author of You Just Don't Understand In African Women, the author of the highly acclaimed and bestselling memoir Kaffir Boy presents the deeply moving, often shocking, but ultimately inspiring stories of his grandmother, mother and sister. Coping with abuse, gambling, drunkenness and infidelity from the men they love or have been forced to marry, all three women defy African tradition, and the poverty and violence of life in a modern urban society, to make fulfilling lives for themselves and those they love in the belly of the apartheid beast in South Africa. "A powerful piece of work...It is a pleasure finally to have a book concerned with issues of dire importance to women written sensitively by a man." — Washington Post Book World "Mathabane shifts his attention from the evils of racism to what may be the still more insidious and intractable problems of sexism as he describes in spare, moving prose the lives of his sister, mother and grandmother." — The Wall Street Journal "A finely crafted book that makes it easier to understand how the vicious cycles of abuse and oppression of women snowballed under apartheid." — Christian Science Monitor "A deeply shocking tribute to the historical struggles, sufferings and above all, the courage of women." — Quarterly Black Review of Books "Memoirs that speak in harrowing detail of growing up female in South Africa...There's no sloganizing; rather, the political is made personal in scenes of daily confrontation between women and men, between black and white." — Booklist Dedication: To African women who, with indomitable courage and undying faith, daily fought to sustain hope in the depths of despair and bondage. Table of Contents: Florah - Lobola Complicates Love Geli - Sold to a Man I didn't Love Granny - Abandoned For Another Woman Florah - Infidelity Geli - A Child is Born Granny - John and I Are Not Europeans Florah - The Raid Geli - Witch Doctor's Spell Granny - Witchcraft Kills My Only Brother Geli - Witch Doctor Unmasked Granny - Life As a Single Mother Florah - Collin Dies, Walter Turns Into An Abuser Geli - Self-Reliance Granny - Nkensani Florah - "I'm Strong and Healthy. I Can Never Get AIDS." Geli - Jackson Has An Affair Granny - My Son is Arrested For Armed Robbery Florah - I Finally Leave Walter Geli - Fight With Jackson's Mistress Granny - Bushy Is Raped Florah - Ritual School Geli - I Become A Drunkard Granny - An Ex-Convict Becomes A Christian Florah - My Father Burns Our School Uniforms Geli - Battle of The Matchmakers Granny - Bushy is Haunted By the Past Florah - The Nightmare Years Geli - I'm Driven Insane Granny - Witchcraft Is Defeated Florah - Why I Believe in Witchcraft Geli - Revenge Is Mine, But I Won't Take It Granny - A Political Lesson Florah - Going to America Geli - Ma-Mahafa's Son Is Burned Alive Granny - PhuthaDichaba (Gathering Of Nations) Read Preface Read Chapter One If you'd like to order African Women, simply click on the red button
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