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Warrior for Peace
University of Oklahoma Press
May 2006
On Sale: April 30, 2006
560 pages
ISBN: 0806137673
EAN: 9780806137674
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
“Apartheid South Africa was on fire around me.” So begins the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer
Edward J. Perkins, the first black United States ambassador
to South Africa. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him
the unparalleled assignment: dismantle apartheid without
violence. As he fulfilled that assignment, Perkins was scourged by the
American press, despised by the Afrikaner government, hissed
at by white South African citizens, and initially boycotted
by black South African revolutionaries, including Archbishop
Desmond Tutu. His advice to President-elect George H. W.
Bush helped modify American policy and hasten the release of
Nelson Mandela and others from prison. Perkins’s up-by-your-bootstraps life took him from a cotton
farm in segregated Louisiana to the white elite Foreign
Service, where he became the first black officer to ascend
to the top position of director general. This is the story of how one man turned the page of history.
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