In her informative reply on this subject, Carolyn Brown commented
that "There is...a strong interest among A[frican]-A[merican] students
in student struggles..." in South Africa. Her remark prompts me to
suggest Rose Zwi's novel, *The Umbrella Tree* (Penguin, 1990) for use
in classes dealing with South Africa.
Focusing on the 1976 Spoweto student uprisings, the novel does not so
much consider the uprisings themselves as it does the effect of the
uprisings on young and old, black and white, through the metaphor of
activites under a solitary umbrella tree in rural South Africa. My
students have found it both accesible and informative.