Apartheid in my Rucksack
A story of travel and self-discovery through Africa, Apartheid in my Rucksack unfolds just as apartheid was ending. Journalist Ted Botha left South Africa in the late 1980s, wanting to forget all the political and racial turmoil there, and hoping to discover the continent he knew little about. But forgetting South Africa wasn’t that easy, and his home country dogged his every step. From the shores of Lake Malawi to the dusty streets of Lusaka, from a shanty on the border of Tanzania to a filthy hotel in Mombasa, he found that the further from home he travelled, the closer he got. Full of humour and candour, Apartheid in my Rucksack paints an unforgettable picture of eight months on the road, from Africa to England to America, capturing the Third and First Worlds through the curious eyes of a white man inextricably caught between the two. Memoir, Travel, Nonfiction
“‘Funny, witty, caustic, enormously readable.’ ”
