For almost fifty years, apartheid forced the young people of South Africa to live apart as Blacks, Whites, Indians, and "Coloreds." This unique and dramatic collection of stories--by native South African and Carnegie Medalist Beverley Naidoo--is about young people's choices in a beautiful country made ugly by injustice. Each story is set in a different decade during the turbulent years from 1948 to 2000, and portrays powerful fictional characters who are caught up in very real and often disturbing events.
We are the young people, We will not be broken
For almost fifty years, apartheid forced the young people of South Africa to live apart as Bl...
A shot. Two shots at the gate in the early morning and a car screeches away down an avenue of palm trees. A tragedy and a terrible loss for Sade and her younger brother, Femi, children of an outspoken Nigerian journalist. Now they must flee the country for England. At once. And alone.
A shot. Two shots at the gate in the early morning and a car screeches away down an avenue of palm trees. A tragedy and a terrible loss for Sade and h...
