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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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The comedian traces his coming of age during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, offering insight into the farcical aspects of the political and social systems of today's world.
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English
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"Will the Freedom Struggle End in a Bloodbath? Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid hero and first leader of the new South Africa, is an international symbol of the power of a popular movement to fight structural racism. But that nonviolent struggle for equality and justice very nearly spiraled into an all-out race war that would have only ended in "the peace of graveyards." As the first post-apartheid elections approach in 1994, with South African...
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English
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In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison for 23 years, set about winning over the fiercest proponents of apartheid, from his jailers to the head of South Africa's military. First he earned his freedom and then he won the presidency in the nation's first free election in 1994. But he knew that South Africa was still dangerously divided. If he couldn't unite his country in a visceral, emotional way--and fast--it would collapse into chaos. He would need...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing...
6) Catch a fire
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 37 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
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Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and achievements of Nelson Mandela, discussing his childhood, work as a freedom fighter, imprisonment, release from prison, political career, and more.
9) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 2 min. + extras) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A five-star-hotel manager in Rwanda risks his life when he opens his hotel to more than a thousand Tutsis refugees in order to protect them from death.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred. Until the Soweto Uprising,...
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