In Rainbow Nation Revisited, Donald Woods, now recognized as being an instrumental figure in the emergence of the new South Africa, revisits the country of his birth for the first time since he fled with his wife and children in 1977. He returns to the places of his past, where he reflects on the extraordinary figures he befriended, including Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A skillful and affectionate attempt to unpick the social fabric of a country that was once a pariah state.

Rainbow Nation Revisited: South Africa's Decade of Democracy

History

Woods, Donald

Africa

Andre Deutsch

The author played a crucial role in ending apartheid in South Africa. Now, after ten years of democracy, Donald Woods casts a critical eye over the exciting and often frightening changes that have taken place since he escaped.

Rainbow nation revisited: South Africa's decade of democracy

A revised edition, this text presents a biography of the life and concerns of Steve Biko.

Biko

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage

Dust jacket notes: "On Tuesday, September 6, 1977, Steve Biko was taken by South African Security Police to Room 619 of the Sanlam Building in Strand Street, Port Elizabeth. He was hand-cuffed, put into leg-irons, chained to a grille and subjected to twenty-two hours of interrogation, torture and beating. He received between two and four blows to the head, fatally damaging his brain. He died six days later. No charges were pressed against his captors. A shock wave exploded across South Africa and reverberated in every corner of the globe. Newspaper editor Donald Woods, a close friend of Biko's, led the outcry against this atrocity. On October 19, 1977 he was officially banned and completely prohibited from writing. He began this book in secrecy, in defiance of his banning order and under threat of Security Police surveilance. The tragedy of Biko's death was still painfully fresh in his mind. Chapter by chapter the book was smuggled out of South Africa. Publication became possible only when Donald and Wendy Woods and their five young children made a dramatic flight to freedom - an escape which captured the imagination of the world. To tell this story the author had paid the price of exile from his country. Woods vividly recaptures the life and eath of Steve Biko, the brilliant and charismatic man who became South Africa's leading Black Conciousness spokesman. Here is a portrait of the private as well as public Biko; personal and political dialogues; details of the gruesome torture and killing of Biko; verbatim scenes from the inquest and its findings wihch shocked the world. Biko is a personal testimony to a truly remarkable man; a moving portrait of a uniquely gifted leader destroyed in his prime; a searing indictment of a monstrous system and its gestapo tactics; and the story of a deep friendship which transcended race, class and politics under a system determined to keep them separate and unequal."

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Paddington Press, Ltd.

Donald Woods, the South African journalist whose arguments and articles against apartheid resulted in his being forbidden to write or even to meet with people, recounts his life, growing up in the Transkei, and his struggle against apartheid

Asking for Trouble: the Autobiography of a Banned Journalist

Business & Money

Victor Gollancz

Donald Woods, the South African journalist whose arguments and articles against apartheid resulted in his being forbidden to write or even to meet with people, recounts his life, growing up in the Transkei, and his struggle against apartheid

Asking for Trouble: Autobiography of a Banned Journalist

Professionals & Academics

Atheneum

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South African Dispatches: Letters to My Countrymen

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Henry Holt Co.

H. Holt

Recounts the filming of the story of Steve Biko, a Black leader in South Africa who was beaten to death by the police

Filming With Attenborough: The Making of Cry Freedom

ATTENBOROUGH, Richard

Humor & Entertainment

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Rainbow Nation Revisited: South Africa's Decade of Democracy

Rainbow nation revisited: South Africa's decade of democracy

Biko

Biko

Asking for Trouble: the Autobiography of a Banned Journalist

Asking for Trouble: Autobiography of a Banned Journalist

South African Dispatches: Letters to My Countrymen

Biko

Filming With Attenborough: The Making of Cry Freedom

South African Dispatches: Letters to My Countrymen