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Power lines

Jason Carter

2002278 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2002
first published
  • 2002National Geographic Society · 278 pages · ENGISBN 9780792280125
  • 2003National Geographic · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780792241010

"Power lines pass over the town of Lochiel, South Africa. When Jason Carter arrived, the power lines of First-World South Africa ran directly through the village in the former black homeland...but the homes had no electricity.". "In the aftermath of apartheid, few whites live as Peace Corps volunteer Jason Carter did - with a black family in a Third-World community. As he shows us, deprivation and illiteracy are formidable foes adding to the centuries-old legacy of oppression and mistrust that still casts its long shadow across a South African society struggling to redefine itself in the years following Nelson Mandela's presidency."--BOOK JACKET.

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