Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-04-27
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Andrew Sage discussed Born a Crime by Trevor Noah.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Born a Crime
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah is a critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir detailing the comedian's extraordinary upbringing as the child of a white Swiss father and a Black Xhosa mother in apartheid South Africa, where his very existence was illegal.
Discussed“So recently I read Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. It was his memoir of his childhood in South Africa. And politics aside, he's a decent comedian and had me laughing out loud and thinking a lot as well.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Much of the information I gathered is thanks to the scholarship of Lucian Vanderwalt, a South African anarchist and professor of sociology. Particularly I'll be looking at the work on anarchism and cynicalism southern Africa from the international encyclopedia of revolution and protest”
“Particularly I'll be looking at the work on anarchism and cynicalism southern Africa from the international encyclopedia of revolution and protest and anarchism and cynicalism in the colonial and postcolonial world.”