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            <description><![CDATA[I ate the bones of my father We should have been a normal family in a tiny house with an orange door. We could have been known for brewing buckets of sorghum beer and cooking delicious goat stews for local funerals. Instead, we were the reason those funerals were happening. The problem arose because I look like my father; therefore, people assumed I was him. They were looking for him. Maybe I had been him all along. Father did something, and mother was aware of it. An angry voice interrupted my ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[CHAPTER 7 CONFESSION]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[CHAPTER 23 Friends in high places]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[An Extract from the Foreword  "There's something powerful about a story that begins in personal struggle and ends in collective impact. James Urdang’s memoir is one such story – a compelling, honest and deeply human account of what it means to transform adversity into action, and personal vision into social change.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chapter 15 A black coup: Inkatha and the sale of Ilanga Alison Gillwald; with content analysis by Cyril Madlala]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA['Visionary... Full of warmth and humanity' Kate Bush 'Profound' Al Gore 'Compulsive reading' Lord Norman Foster The groundbreaking memoir from the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. This is the story of our modern age. The most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of visionary. Born in the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Berners-Lee famously shared his invention, the World Wide Web, for no commercial reward. Its widespread ...]]></description>
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