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A Native of Nowhere: The Life of Nat Nakasa free ebook download

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Author(s):	Ryan Brown

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1431405345
Pages:	225	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Tracing the life of South African writer Nat Nakasa, this biography tells the story of how a quiet, serious African boy growing up in the sleepy coastal city of Durban in the 1940s became part of the generation of outspoken black South African journalists in the 1950s and 1960s. He challenged state-sponsored segregation in that way that only writers can, simply by keeping a detailed record of its existence. On a warm July morning in 1965, he stood facing the window of a friends seventh floor apartment in Central Park West. Less than a year earlier, Nakasa had taken an exit permit from the apartheid governmenta one-way ticket out of the country of his birthand come to Harvard University on a journalism fellowship. Now he was caught in a precarious limbo, unable to return to South Africa but lacking citizenship in the United States, a place that he was beginning to feel offered little respite from the brutal racism of his own country. Standing in that New York City apartment building, he faced the alien city and the next thing anyone knew, he was lying on the pavement below. He was 28 years old. In a short but vibrant career as a writer and editor in the apartheid South Africa of the 1950s and early 1960s, Nakasa penned features for the countrys most influential black news magazine,
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