South Africa: Born a Crime

For #booxploringtheworld July, I went to South Africa with ‘Born a Crime’ by Trevor Noah.

“We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.”

To tell you the truth, before I read this book ‘Apartheid’ was just another word for me.

Apartheid : (in South Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.

Don’t misunderstand me. I knew that it was wrong. I understood that the British had devised the system to keep the native community under their control and to retain their elevated status. I knew the lives of the blacks in South Africa were hard. But I had never given serious thought to those issues, because I always felt as if it was something far seperate from my life. But this book made everything so much more real to me. Trevor Noah’s humorous but matter-of-fact tone, hit me. It hit me hard.

I listened to the audiobook narrated by the author himself, and it made the experience
even more impactful, and fun. I have never come close to experiencing an audiobook with the level of immersiveness I had with this one.