Dancing With Hyenas - Mahola, Mzi
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Dancing with Hyenas is a tour-de-force that blends excellent prose with fact-driven stories to give a fresh perspective of the black struggle against the oppressive conditions of apartheid South Africa. The reader is taken 'behind the scenes' to conversations and strategy sessions in which successive generations of black youths are conscientized about the ideals of the liberation struggle. In the book, author Mzi Mahola tells the stories in evocative, authentic, and thought-provoking narrative. Elsewhere he recounts the deep soul-searching exchanges among the black youth about the goals and…mehr

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Dancing with Hyenas is a tour-de-force that blends excellent prose with fact-driven stories to give a fresh perspective of the black struggle against the oppressive conditions of apartheid South Africa. The reader is taken 'behind the scenes' to conversations and strategy sessions in which successive generations of black youths are conscientized about the ideals of the liberation struggle. In the book, author Mzi Mahola tells the stories in evocative, authentic, and thought-provoking narrative. Elsewhere he recounts the deep soul-searching exchanges among the black youth about the goals and efficacy of the Black Consciousness Movement in advancing cause of black liberation. His accounts are remarkably accurate, especially given the fifteen-year range over which the book is written. What is most refreshing about Dancing with Hyenas is the emic perspective it takes since most of the books on the topic are written by outside observers. This is a one-of-a-kind book- amust-read for any interested in learning from indigenous blacks how they were able to make meaning of the lives while confronted by vagaries and vicissitudes of that vicious system, which was finally brought down in the early 1990s. Mzamo P Mangaliso Professor, Isenberg School of Management University of Massachusetts - Amherst MA Dancing with Hyenas is a bout rites of passage of a young man hurled into maturity in a troubled land. Mzikayise Mahola conveys the story choosing words with the precision and dexterity of a poet, recalling events and painting them with the skill reserved for great story tellers. The book enthralls as it enables the reader to journey with Lizo through the labyrinth of dark paths in a perilous South Africa. We do not know how he will, survive the wrath of the system whose vultures always hover with devilish zeal and sickening patience. Lizo thrives in a world that betrays talented and ambitious youth. Mahola lucidly captures the snippets of history, sharing hopes and shattered dreams in the trapping of the old South Africa. Indeed, this book is a piece of history that exemplifies how many young people experienced the rough ride into brittle futures. Vuysile T. Msila Professor and Head, Institute for African Renaissance Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA) Dancing with Hyenas offers a riveting account of life under South Africa Aparthied. Lizo's autobiography evokes memories of "Coming of Age" stories by James Bladwin, Chinua Achebe and Frantz Fanon. Stori
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The events in the book start in Gqeberha and end in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The adventures of the author create a cauldron of intrigue within and from outside the fighting units, conflict, fear, mistrust, unpredictability of state, lies and counter lies. All these come to a pot of tension, uncertainty and dogged determination to fight on. This explodes into death, disappearances of comrades, toy-toying and necklacing. The compelling force within this work is that it has the real people, real events, real and imagined fears that haunt each episode. The art of the author in creating the kind of edge-of-the-seat stuff that brings the reality of the 1980's back into sharp focus and his ability to be on both sides of the conflict fuels the tension and allow his story to be palpably frightening and scotching in its hot events and actions of characters. The fight against oppressive rule by oppressive regime and machinery is the theme that permeates the book. The events are snippets of such fights. The meetings at night in dark rooms, the toy-toying and funerals, the crossing of borders and information sharing are kinds of ammunition the comrades need to shape their warring strategies. The determination to take the BOERS on their game was not only brave but was also suicidal from a number of fronts. It is this determination and belief in themselves that the comrades had a conviction that was almost religious that they would overcome. With the external African National Congress there was an air of self-reliance and hope that their efforts would never be in vain. A must to read about the history and the realities of South Africa in a divided society which should never be forgotten. Professor. Mzobanzi Mzobz Mboya - Ilitha Publishers