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...free, crushed by the weight of apartheid. Eventually, after much personal loss, he even uses his fists against Lena's body to ease his own heartache; it is the only way he can express his anger without disrupting "white bossman." But in the eyes and ears of a strange Xhosa tribesman (Willie Jonah), Lena finds truth and independence, and her journey towards wholeness and humanity begins. This three-person cast carries the weight of apartheid and oppression on their tired and bruised shoulders. After a storm, Lena finds herself fully clothed but naked to the truth. She tells Boesman that...
...activist Stokely Carmichael. Now single, she laughs and says she is "too old to marry again." In 1990, after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, Makeba returned to South Africa. On Homeland Makeba's music sounds timeless and tireless. The succulent African pop songs are in English and in Xhosa (Makeba's native tongue). The first track, Masakhane, is a stirring call "for unity and hope in the postapartheid era." Another track, Lindelani, is a gentle ballad written for and named after her great-grandson...
...begins in Qunu, the Xhosa village where Mandela grew up and where he has been vacationing for the past week. Fog and rain blanket the Transkei hills, so the President must forgo his usual daily morning walk. At 5 a.m. he heads for the airport, where his jet waits to fly him 400 miles north to Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital...
There are ceremonial differences too. When new President Nelson Mandela enters the House, he is preceded by a loinclothed, jackal-skinned imbongi -- a traditional Xhosa praise singer. And in a multiracial assembly that represents 11 languages, several religions and any number of different churches, the traditional opening prayer -- once led by a minister of religion -- is out, replaced by a minute of silence for personal meditation...
When her Fulbright took her to Cape Town, she immersed herself in black South African culture. "She wanted to live among the people," says Bolich. Soon after arriving last fall, she was speaking Xhosa, dancing to the local jazz and spending nights with friends in the townships. Says Melanie Jacobs, her roommate, who is mixed-race: "She was color-blind and completely at home with us." At the University of the Western Cape, African National Congress legal expert and executive member Dullah Omar guided her research on women's issues and voter education. But her interests pulled her back...