After Mandela: The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871404787)

A brutally honest exposé, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have focused primarily on Nelson Mandela's transcendent story. But Douglas Foster, a leading South Africa authority with early, unprecedented access to President Zuma and to the next generation in the Mandela family, traces the nation's entire post-apartheid arc, from its celebrated beginnings under "Madiba" to Thabo Mbeki's tumultuous rule to the ferocious battle between Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Foster tells this story not only from the point of view of the emerging black elite but also, drawing on hundreds of rare interviews over a six-year period, from the perspectives of ordinary citizens, including an HIV-infected teenager living outside Johannesburg and a homeless orphan in Cape Town. This is the long-awaited, revisionist account of a country whose recent history has been not just neglected but largely ignored by the West.

Author: Douglas Foster
ISBN-10: 0871404788
ISBN-13: 9780871404787
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2012
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/19/2012 pg. 75
Booklist 05/01/2012 pg. 75
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2012
Shelf Awareness 09/11/2012
Choice 03/01/2013