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A Path Through Hard Grass. A Journalist's Memories of Exile and Apartheid

By Ruth Weiss

A Path Through Hard Grass. A Journalist's Memories of Exile and Apartheid book

A Path Through Hard Grass. A Journalist's Memories of Exile and Apartheid

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A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss' journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s. In 1968 banned from her home country, and then also from Rhodesia for her critical investigative journalism, she starts reporting from Lusaka, London and Cologne on virtually all issues which affect the newly independent African countries. Peasants and national leaders in southern Africa - Ruth Weiss met them all, traveling through Africa at a time when it was neither usual for a woman to do so, nor to report for economic media as she did. Her writing gained her the friendship of diverse and interesting people. In this book she offers us glimpses into some of her many long-nurtured friendships, with Kenneth Kaunda or Nadine Gordimer and many others. Her life-long quest for tolerance and understanding of different cultures shines through the many personalized stories which her astute eye and pen reveals in this book. As she put it, one never sheds the cultural vest donned at birth, but this should never stop one learning about and accepting other cultures.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
278
Release Date:
2014-06-01
Publication Date:
2014-07-17
Publisher:
African Books Collective
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3905758393
ISBN13:
9783905758399
Weight:
485 g
Height:
170 cm
Width:
244 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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