Trevor noah biography wikipedia

2016 book by Trevor Noah

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is an autobiographicalcomedy book written by South African comedian Trevor Noah, published in 2016.

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The book focuses on Noah's childhood growing up in his native South Africa after he was born of an illegal interracial relationship during the apartheid era. The book was a bestseller and has received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Narrative

The book details Trevor Noah's experiences growing up in South Africa during the apartheid era. Noah's parents were a white Swiss-German father and a black Xhosa mother.

Trevor noah biography wikipedia

At the time of Noah's birth in 1984, their interracial relationship was illegal under the Immorality Act, 1957. According to Noah, "for [him] to be born as a mixed-race baby" was to be "born a crime."^[1] Interracial relations were decriminalised when the Immorality Act was amended in 1985.

As a mixed-race person, Noah was classified as a "Coloured" in accordance to t