Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker
R300.00
‘Bookended by two unspeakable tragedies, the suicide of a mother and of a son, Letters to my mother offers one of the most compelling accounts yet of the making of an antiapartheid activist.’
– Jonathan D. Jansen
‘Through his vulnerable remembering, he shows us that when we are ready, we must face ourselves and our untold stories.’
– Siphokazi Jonas
‘Once you’ve read this book you will never be the same again.’
– Noel Daniels, CEO Cornerstone Institute
This is more than a book.
This is a blazing voyage.
Growing up in apartheid-era Chatsworth, Kumi Naidoo tells how his mother’s suicide when he was just 15 years old acted as a catalyst for his journey into radical action against the apartheid regime. In this revelatory and intimate story, Kumi describes his political awakening, and his experiences as a young community organiser and underground ANC activist during the 1980s. His grief and anger became fuel for his efforts to help liberate South Africa and to build a better world.
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Weight | 029 kg |
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Dimensions | 215 × 155 × 30 mm |
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Kumi Naidoo has been a troublemaker for over forty years. A former Secretary General of Amnesty International and former Executive Director of Greenpeace International, he has become a global figure in progressive social movements worldwide. A child activist of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, Kumi was born in 1965 and grew up in the township of Chatsworth. He cut his teeth as a youth organiser during the anti-apartheid school boycotts of the early 1980s, going on to become deeply involved in the underground activities of the African National Congress. Having been arrested multiple times, and with a price on his head, Kumi fled to the UK in 1987 where he took up a place at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, remaining in exile until 1990. |
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9781431432882 |
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