Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader
Across Boundaries is an autobiography that captures both a unique heart and a nation's history. Because Mamphela Ramphele began her life as a shy child born into the cage of apartheid - and gradually became an activist who helped set South Africa free -her personal story enlarges each reader's sense of possibilities. Because she was part of the Black Consciousness Movement that linked the personal to the political, she teaches us that race, sex, and class are linked, and that enemies can only...
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A memoir of loss and triumph by one of South Africa's most powerful women—now in paperback. Baltimore Sun With the publication of her memoir, Mamphela Ramphele invites comparison to a formidable collection of women -- Katharine Graham, Pamela Harriman, Madeleine Albright -- recently in the news because of the way their careers were shaped by personal and family sagas....Her story has the sweep of an historical novel, in which one woman's tragedies and triumphs play out on the stage of one of the century's great morality plays, and in intimate proximity to one of its leading actors (Stephen Biko)....Ramphele has given us a window into one of the most riveting national makeovers of modern times.
\ Baltimore SunWith the publication of her memoir, Mamphela Ramphele invites comparison to a formidable collection of women -- Katharine Graham, Pamela Harriman, Madeleine Albright -- recently in the news because of the way their careers were shaped by personal and family sagas....Her story has the sweep of an historical novel, in which one woman's tragedies and triumphs play out on the stage of one of the century's great morality plays, and in intimate proximity to one of its leading actors (Stephen Biko)....Ramphele has given us a window into one of the most riveting national makeovers of modern times.\ \
