Country of My Skull

by Antjie Krog

Antjie is one of South Africa’s most important Afrikaans poets. She worked as a journalist for the South African Broadcasting Corporation at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and she went around the country listening to testimony of victims of apartheid and families of people who had been killed by the apartheid security police. And this book is critical for an understanding of South Africa. She takes you into the raw emotion that exists in the country to this day.