Name of book : Born a Crime : St o ries from a S o uth Afric an Child ho od Name of author : Trevor Noah Genre : Mem oir Year of Publication : 2016 Publishers : S piegel & Grau, New Y ork Name of Reviewer : Chidiebere Ka lu Born a Crime is the compelling, inspiring, and comically magnificent story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. It is an engaging, fast-paced and vivid memoir, traversing Noah’s early childhood, confined by the absurdities of apartheid, where he could not walk openly with either of his parents, where he was often closeted inside his grandmother’s two-roomed home, where he was mistaken for white, through to his troubled years at school, his brief incarceration and to his budding success as a hustler selling pirated CDs while working as a DJ at parties; a book that would make you laugh and cry, all at the same time. Noah was literally “born a ...
