Through My Lens: A Photographic Memoir – Alf Kumalo

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An insider s account, brimming with colorful anecdotes, humor and passion, of South Africa s turbulent past. Kumalo shares intimate moments of pain and of triumph, in pictures and words. He was the one who escorted Nelson Mandela s aged mother through the menacing crowds at the Rivonia Trial. He was there at HF Verwoerd s funeral. He was a guest at Mohammad Ali s home in Chicago and at the Rumble in the Jungle fight in Kinshasa. Kumalo joined Mandela on his first visit to America as SA president.Kumalo s life s work is a visual documentary of a nation s transformation, but he is also a storyteller of note. His first-person account of historic events and private moments is filled with humor and compassion.An extraordinary and gripping eyewitness account, featuring amongst others: .Nelson Mandela and his family .Steve Biko.Desmond Tutu.Helen Joseph.Albertina Sisulu.Nadine Gordimer.Nat Nakasa.Muhammad Ali.Ray Charles.Robert Kennedy.Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba.Dizzie Gillespie