Books like Mine boy by Abrahams, Peter

A sweeping portrait of post‑Founders’ Day South Africa, Cry, the Beloved Country follows Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom as they confront racial injustice and the harsh realities of white‑dominated law.

James Weldon Johnson’s autobiographical novel traces the life of a mixed‑race narrator who, able to pass as white, struggles with identity and injustice in early 20th‑century America.

29, 311 p. 24 cm

Set in a South African village, Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness weaves past and present as a prophetess’s failed 19th‑century vision clashes with modern plans for a casino, drawing a returning exile into a fractured community and a love triangle.

Par une romancière sud-africaine de talent, une plongée dans l'enfer quotidien - violence et suspicion - du racisme. L'héroïne est la fille d'un médecin blanc, condamné à la prison à vie, pour avoir organisé la lutte politique contre l'apartheid.

Precolonial images of Africa, colonialism, and fascism -- The Germans in the Colonies -- African and Afro-German women in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism -- Our father was Cameroonian, our mother, East Prussian, we are mulattoes / Doris Reiprich and Erika Ngambi Ul Kuo -- An "occupation baby" in postwar Germany / Helga Emde -- "Aren't you glad you can stay here?" / Astrid Berger -- "Mirror the invisible,play the forgotten" / Miriam Goldschmidt -- Three Afro-German women in conversation with Dagmar Schultz / Laura Baum, Katharina Oguntoye, May Optiz[sic] -- "What makes me so different in the eyes of others?" / Ellen Wiedenroth -- Old Europe meets up with itself in a different place / Corinna N. -- "All of a sudden, I knew what I wanted" / Angelika Eisenbrandt -- "I do the same things that others do" / Julia Berger -- Mother: Afro-German, Father: Ghanaian / Abena Adomako -- The break / May Optiz[sic] -- What I've always wanted to tell you / Katharina Oguntoye -- "I never wanted to write, I just couldn't help myself" / Raya Lubinetzki.