Books by Antjie Krog
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.
Interviews where books by Antjie Krog were recommended
The best books on Post-Apartheid Identity, recommended by Kevin Bloom
The award-winning South African writer Kevin Bloom discusses five books that bring light to post-apartheid South Africa with focus on the predicament of the white South African. Do whites ‘deserve’ to feel at home in their country?
