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81) Nelson Mandela
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"Nelson Mandela, who courageously dealt with adversity and emerged a world leader, has been an inspirational role model for millions of people around the world, from students to presidents. After being imprisoned for 27 years, in 1994 he became South Africa's first democratically-elected president and shared the Nobel Peace Prize. Mandela died in 2013, but his legacy lives on as a barrier-breaker and humanitarian. Learn all about his life, especially...
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On June 16, 1976, Hector Pieterson, an ordinary boy, lost his life after getting caught up in what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Black South African students were marching against a new law requiring that they be taught half of their subjects in Afrikaans, the language of the White government. The story's events unfold from the perspectives of Hector, his sister, and the photographer who captured their photo in the chaos. This book can serve...
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"La impresionante trayectoria de Trevor Noah, desde su infancia en Sudafrica durante el apartheid hasta el escritorio de The Daily Show, comenzo con un acto criminal: su nacimiento. Trevor nacio de un padre suizo blanco y una madre Xhosa negra, en una epoca de la historia sudafricana en que tal union era castigada con cinco anos de prision. Como prueba viviente de la indiscrecion de sus padres, Trevor permanecio los primeros anos de su vida bajo el...
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"In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, two-thirds of the city's population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militia, his father somewhere in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the world. This ... book tells Asad's story, [from a childhood living in a bewildering number of places...
87) Nelson Mandela
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A biography of the son of a Thembu chief who became a civil rights activist, political prisoner, and president of South Africa.
89) Biko
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Biography of the Bantu resistance leader to apartheid; his arrest, torture, and murder by the South African Secret Police; and his friendship with the author, the white newspaper editor who exposed his murder.
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A chilling work of psychological suspense and forensic memoir, this is a tale of a woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed to vanish, and of a daughter who reclaims an abandoned past. Emma Brockes grew up hearing only pieces of her mother's story. After her death, Emma begins a dangerous journey into the land her mother fled from to unearth the truth.
96) Nelson Mandela
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Presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.
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During the worst years of official racism in South Africa, the story of one young girl came to symbolize the injustice, corruption, and arbitrary nature of apartheid. Born in 1955 to a pro-apartheid white couple, Sandra Laing was officially registered and raised as a white child. But at a school for whites, she was mercilessly persecuted because of her dark skin and frizzy hair. Her parents attributed her appearance to an interracial union far back...
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