Purchase
The Dream Deferred
Jove Books
November 2007
On Sale: November 7, 2007
650 pages
ISBN: 1868423018
EAN: 9781868423019
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Political
By the time he retires in 2009, Thabo Mbeki will have ruled
South Africa, in effect, for the full 15 years of its
post-apartheid democracy: the first five as Nelson Mandela’s
‘prime minister’ and the next ten as Mandela’s successor. No
African leader since the uhuru generation of Nkrumah and
Nyerere has been as influential. Mark Gevisser’s long-awaited biography is a profound
psycho-political examination of this brilliant but
deeply-flawed leader, who has attempted to forge an identity
for himself as the symbol of modern Africa in the long
shadow of Mandela. It is also a gripping journey into the
turbulent history and troubled contemporary soul of the
country; one that tries to make sense of the violence of the
past and confusion of the present. As Mbeki battles, in the current day, with demons ranging
from AIDS to Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and finds his legacy
challenged by the ever-growing candidacy of his would-be
successor Jacob Zuma, The Dream Deferred tracks us back
along the path that brought him here, and helps us
understand the meaning of South Africa, post-apartheid and
post-Mandela. This book is a story about home and exile. It
is a story, too, of political intrigue; of a revolutionary
movement struggling first to defeat and then to seduce a
powerful and callous enemy, of the battle between unity and
discord, and the dogged rise to power of a quiet, clever,
diligent but unpopular man who seemed to take little joy in
power but have much need for it.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy