Publisher's Synopsis
Born into the small social elite of black South Africa, Phyllis Ntantala did not face the grinding poverty so familiar to other South African blacks. Instead, her struggle was that of a creative, articulate woman seeking fulfilment and justice in a land that tried to deny her both.;The widow of Xhosa writer and historian A.C. Jordan and mother of African National Congress leader X. Pallo Jordan, she and her family experienced a change in South Africa and also in the United States, where they moved during the 1960s. She discovers similarities in the two countries, including the arrogance of power.;Anchored in history and culture, "A Life's Mosaic" sharply reveals the world and the people of South Africa. As the story of a political exile, it represents the dislocations that have caused universal suffering in the second half of the 20th century. Phyllis Ntantala discusses the cruelty of racism, the cynicism of political solutions, and the hopes of those who live in both a world of exile and a world of dreams.
