This exciting slice-of-life novel is a remarkable record of being young in a nation that is undergoing tremendous turmoil, and provides a glimpse inside South Africa's pivotal kwaito generation. Dingz is an average student in South Africa who spends his days partying, skipping class, and picking up girls. But he is living in charged times, and his happy college life is constantly interrupted by historical and personal events—South Africa's first democratic elections, AIDS, and financial difficulties that threaten to push him out of school.