MEMOIRS OF A BORN FREE: REFLECTIONS ON THE RAINBOW NATION

Book ID/图书代码： 12070014B75398

English Summary/英文概要： On 19 October 1991, Malaika Lesego Samora Mahlatsi was born at the Meadowlands Community Clinic, one year and eight months after Mandela’s release from prison. The Nationalist Party was still in power, but everyone knew that its grip on political power would draw to an inevitable end sooner rather than later. Memoirs of a Born Free is a journey back through the life of Malaika Wa Azania as she recounts the experience of growing up through the end of apartheid and South Africa’s transition into a democratic nation. She was not born during the times of constitutionalized apartheid but is still a product of an epoch of systematic individualized apartheid. Her story is not a reflection of freedom; it is an epitome of the ongoing struggle for liberation and emancipation from mental slavery. The struggle of the generations before that of the Born Frees was a struggle for political freedom and democracy and was the foundation for revolution and reform but not the ultimate goal. Malaika contests the notion of the born-free generation when it is a generation that was born in the midst of a struggle for economic freedom and the quest for the realization of the objectives of the African Renaissance. The book’s purpose is to give an alternative narrative to the existing one that suggests that Malaika’s is a generation of apolitical and desensitized people.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1991年10月19，距离曼德拉从监狱释放后一年又八个月，马莱卡•莱塞格•萨马拉•玛拉提斯出生在梅多兰兹的社区诊所。民主党仍在掌权，但每个人都知道它的政权将不可避免的或早或迟的结束。《一个年轻一代的回忆录》是一段回到马莱卡•瓦•阿扎尼亚的生活的旅程，讲述了她由种族隔离的南非过渡到一个民主国家的成长经历。她没有出生在种族隔离时代，但仍然是系统的个性化的种族隔离时代的产物。她的故事不是对自由的体现；它是为了自由，为了从精神奴役中解放而不断斗争的一个缩影。在年轻一代之前出世的人们为了政治自由和民主而斗争，这是革命和改革的基础，但不是最终的目标。马莱卡对年轻一代的概念提出了异议，这是出生在争取经济自由和努力实现非洲复兴目标的中间年代的一代人。本书的目的是以另一种方式表明马莱卡这一代的人对政治不感兴趣和不敏感。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：“By forcefully interrogating the problematic notion of the Rainbow Nation, and by daring to address the broken promise of an ANC in dire need of strong leadership, Memoirs of a Born Free is a must read - a book that reveals just how inadequate political freedom without socio-economic freedom truly is.” Jonathan Amid, Cape Times

“In Malaika, we have a phenomenal young thinker. She succeeds in this book, to fearlessly debunk the easy notion of South Africa as a rainbow nation and proceeds to outline the new struggle faced especially by Black South Africans.” Professor Tinyiko Maluleke, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Internationalization, Advancement and Student Affairs, University of Johannesburg

"Honest and necessary reading" -- Elle South Africa

" With wit and an ability to articulate her mind with lucidity, Malaika shows how the legacy of the intersection of race and class continues to define the South African social landscape. She forces us to revisit our way of seeing things...This is a compelling book which, whether the reader agrees with Malaika’s starting points or not, helps us interrogate taken-for-granted assumptions. It is a book to read!" Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe

"In a South Africa that had already declared itself to be post-apartheid, the image of racial integration and progress put forward by the current government is torn apart by the current generation. Living within structures still ravaged by institutional disparity, the image of the ’rainbow nation’ is belied by the lived experienced dutifully expounded in this first long-form work by an activist voice of contemporary change for black consciousness."
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2018/november/nota-benes-november-2018

About the Author/作者介绍： 马莱卡•瓦•阿扎尼亚是一位充满激情的辩论家和活动家，致力于追求非洲复兴计划，也是“非洲主义者杂志”和“非洲左派声音杂志”的创始人，并且是“思想家杂志”的专栏作家。2012年，马莱卡成为位于格雷厄姆斯敦的罗德斯大学的南非学生大会（SASCO）的支部书记，她目前是整个非洲大陆的所有青年社会组织的总部——非洲青年联盟的秘书长。她也是她自己的写作公司“笔和库尔德斯坦革命（控股）有限公司”的董事长。

Malaika Wa Azania, a fierce debater and an activist devoted to pursuing the African Renaissance agenda is the founder of a pan Africanist journal, African Voices of the Left and a columnist for The Thinker magazine. In 2012, Malaika was the branch secretary of the South African Students Congress (SASCO) at Rhodes University in Grahamstown and is currently the Secretary General of the African Youth Coalition, an umbrella organisation of all the youth society organisations throughout the African continent. She is also the director of her own writing company, Pen and Azanian Revolution (Pty) Ltd.

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