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100 1 $aMathabane, Mark.
245 10 $aAfrican women :$bthree generations /$cMark Mathabane.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bHarperCollins,$c[1994]
264 4 $c℗♭1994
300 $axviii, 366 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aPart I. 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 -- Part II. Florah : the raid -- Geli : witch doctor's spell -- Granny : witchcraft kills my only brother -- Florah : Collin is shot -- Geli : witch doctor unmasked -- Granny : life as a single mother -- Part III. 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 -- Part IV. 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 -- Part V. 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 -- Part VI. 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 burnt alive -- Granny : Phuthadichaba ("gathering of the nations").
520 $aIn African Women, the author of the highly acclaimed and best-selling memoir Kaffir Boy tells the deeply moving, often shocking, but ultimately inspiring stories of his grandmother, mother, and sister.
520 8 $aCoping 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.
520 8 $aGranny is sold to her future husband in their homeland - he pays the traditional bride price, lobola, agreed upon by their two families - and after fathering her three children, he deserts her for another woman. When Granny's daughter Geli comes of age, it's not surprising that Granny forces her to marry an older man, Jackson Mathabane, who might be less likely to desert a young wife.
520 8 $aThe marriage of Geli and Jackson is fraught with drama from the very beginning. Geli and her still-to-be-born first child (the author) are almost victims of witchcraft, saved at the last moment by a relative who discovers the perpetrator and rescues both mother and child.
520 8 $aJackson drinks and gambles, takes a mistress, beats his wife, and when Geli flees with the children to her aunt's house, demands all of them - his property - back with righteous indignation and the weight of African tribal tradition on his side.
520 8 $aMathabane's sister Florah is swept up in the student rebellion against apartheid in the mid-1970s, which left hundreds of young blacks dead. Much later, a single mother looking for love and protection in the dangerous world of Alexandra, a black ghetto of Johannesburg, Florah falls in love with a notorious gangster who proves to be more than she can handle.
520 8 $aThe stories of Florah, Geli, and Granny are told in their own words in alternating chapters that demonstrate how similar are the problems faced by each generation: all three women discover the need for an independent income in order to care for themselves and for their children; all three are the victims of the traditional assumption that women are property, commodities bought and sold by men; all three suffer from the terrible hardship imposed not only on women but also on black men by the system of apartheid in South Africa.
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650 0 $aApartheid$zSouth Africa.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aMathabane, Mark.$tAfrican women.$b1st ed.$dNew York, N.Y. : HarperCollins, ℗♭1994$w(OCoLC)988563816
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