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Mark Gevisser is the author of the prize-winning A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream and Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa. He is the co-editor of Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa. His journalism has appeared in afficher plus The Guardian, The New York Times, Granta, and other publications. Born in Johannesburg in 1964, he lives in France and South Africa. afficher moins

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Granta 114: Aliens (2011) — Contributeur — 94 exemplaires
Granta 129: Fate (2014) — Contributeur — 58 exemplaires
Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa (1994) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions26 exemplaires

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A rich book exploring a closed book. Examines in an engrossing way many of the aspects of Mbeki's life that has made the man. Silent on Mbeki's deep involvement in the arms deal - no mention of any Liberian investment company and the ownership thereof - reticent to almost oblivion on the mysoginist forces that have shaped the man and his present cabinet, ruled his life and done much to inform - by denial - the extraordinarily convoluted AIDS beliefs.
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JonQuirk | 3 autres critiques | Dec 10, 2007 |
What happens to a dream deferred? This question, from one of Thabo Mbeki's favourite poems by Langston Hughes, provides the thread for this magisterial biography of the second president of a democratic South Africa. In the long shadow of Nelson Mandela, Mbeki attempted to forge an identity for himself as the symbol of modern Africa. Mark Gevisser brings to life the voices and places that made Thabo Mbeki: the frontier of the Eastern Cape; 'Swinging' Britain and neo-Stalinist Moscow in the 1960s; the fraught world of African exile; the confusion of the transition. He examines the meaning of home and exile; of fatherhood and family. He tells the story of South Africa's black elite over a turbulent century - from 'black Englishman' to revolutionaries to heads of state - and Mbeki's own transition from doctrinaire communism to economic liberalism. Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred is a work of deep scholarship and a gripping, highly readable story. By tracing the path of Mbeki's life, it sheds new light on his political personality and provides unprecedented insight into the dramatic role he has played in South African history.… (plus d'informations)
 
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