The Power of One Bryce Courtenay 1989

This book so far has been marvelous. It involves a young English boy who lives in Africa in the time of Adolf Hitler. From the get go it is spectacular, revolving on magic and intelligence as Peekay endures the torments of the older, Nazi Africans in his school as they torture him with pain and embarrassment. The discrimination is continued as Peekay's friend, an elderly German named Doc, is arrested merely for being German. Peekay was made to shout obscenities to himself, had rocks thrown at him, made to hold an iron bar for hours at a time which if he dropped he would be beaten. Even the teachers disliked him. One woman was so upset when he realized that she was smart she hit him with a ruler until his ear bled.
His only friend was a chicken named Granpa Chook, who was a gift from the greatest medicine man in all of Africa. The chicken seemed to be magical too, and Peekay called him "the toughest damn chicken alive." He was faithful all the way up until the last day of school, when he managed to poop inside the leader of the Nazi's mouth, and they killed him for it.
Similarly prejudice, the English Millitary arrested Doc for being a German spy, and during the relitivly harmless arrest, violence broke out and the policeman broke Peekay's jaw. The papers reported untruthful accounts of the story, saying that the pioctures Doc took as a Professor were some kind of intellegence for Germany and that he had tried to run for it, hurting Peekay in the process.