Research Catalog

Title

Thandi, Liberation : my struggle for South Africa as an exile in America / Thandeka Luthuli Gcabashe.

Author

Gcabashe, Thandeka Luthuli, 1934-

Publication

• Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2024]
• ©2024

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Details

Additional Authors

• Enloe, Elizabeth
• Gaines, Gloria

Description

xx, 215 pages : color illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Alternative Title

My struggle for South Africa as an exile in America

Subject

• Gcabashe, Thandeka Luthuli, 1934-
• Women anti-apartheid activists > Biography
• Exiles' writings, African (English)
• Anti-apartheid movements > South Africa
• Coca Cola (Trademark)
• Boycotts
• Nonviolence
• South Africa
• Atlanta (Ga.)
• Washington, Denzel, 1954-
• Black author

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Contents

Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Acronyms -- Foreword by Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo -- Preface by Gloria Gaines -- Introduction -- Part I: The story of my country: Historical background -- Part II: My early years -- Part III: Liberation struggle in Exile: My anti-apartheid work -- Part IV: After Nelson's release, 1990-1996 -- Afterword -- Annexes -- Appendices.

Call Number

Sc F 26-90

ISBN

• 9781569028223
• 1569028222

OCLC

1463601642

Author

Gcabashe, Thandeka Luthuli, 1934- author.

Title

Thandi, Liberation : my struggle for South Africa as an exile in America / Thandeka Luthuli Gcabashe.

Publisher

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2024]

Copyright Date

©2024

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Summary

"Thandi writes of coming of age in apartheid South Africa, the reasons for her self-exile in the US, and her exhaustive work to liberate her people. In measured manner and without hesitation, she shares her Atlanta-based work with prominent US civil rights leaders, students, universities, local and state elected officials, and religious congregations whom she skillfully organized across a rich diversity of race, income, political affiliations, and faiths. South Africa's horrific apartheid enforcement, unlike the Jim Crow laws in the US, never leaves her memoir's center stage. Its abolition was the driving force for Thandi's countless speaking engagements, boycotts and sanctions, and divestment campaigns culminating with the contentious, nine years Coca-Cola campaign. Thandi demonstrates the profound influence on her activism of her parents, Nokukhanya Luthuli, and Noble Peace Prize recipient, Albert Luthuli. The memoir is an important historical account of one humble person's perseverance. It is an inspirational guide for nonviolent actions in opposition to injustice"-- Page [4] of cover.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Enloe, Elizabeth, editor.

Gaines, Gloria, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc F 26-90