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dananana's review against another edition
4.5
This book was incredible. I got it from a bookshop in Durban and have been reading it over the course of the last few weeks. I loved it straight from the beginning because the author outlines how apartheid specifically affected black women in South Africa. She talked about the troubles she’s had to deal with as a black woman, the problems that affected the entire black community, and the work that she and other black women were doing to fill in the too-large gaps that the government purposefully left. I’ve read a few history books and articles about SA that have all been really good but I didn’t have this perspective in so much detail before and it’d actually been something I was looking for. I’m glad I found this book.
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5.0
Ellen Kuzwayo was a remarkable woman and she writes a remarkable story. The biography of her life intertwines with the lives of many others with whom she shared her struggles. I’ve never seen the plight of women described in such an exceptional way. A brilliant book that is eye-opening to the strength and resilience of women specifically during a time of such hardship and discrimination.
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