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Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto by Es'kia Mphahlele, Es'kia Mphahlele
itssoareira's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
onamoonbeam's review
informative
reflective
2.75
yep that's a life in the middle of a distraught country alright
mir_almei's review
3.0
I read it a time ago for school, and I enjoyed it. I got to know more about the hard life people in South Africa lived and live those days. It is a story to think about the power you have to change the things that are wrong in your life. This man, who had nothing at the beginning of everything, felt the need to study and become someone, and so he did. He got a lot of titles and diplomas for being a teacher and he got his family out from that horrible hole that poorness puts you in. His story is touching and it gives you the lesson that, if you don't do something, it's because you don't want to, not because you can't.
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