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African History Titles Fall 2014

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Chicago Review Press 9781556525988 Pub Date: 8/1/06 $17.95/$19.95 Can. Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback

144 pages Carton Qty: 30 Ages 9 to , Grades 4 to 7 Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places JNF038010 Series: For Kids series

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Africa for Kids Exploring a Vibrant Continent, 19 Activities

Harvey Croze

Africa is brought to life in this imaginative look at the plants, animals, and people that make it such a fascinating continent. Studies of both traditional tribes and modern African cities showcase Africa's diversity, and authentic activities allow kids to dive into the rich culture by making a Maasai bivouac shelter, writing a fable in the African style, working as a field biologist, making a ritual elephant mask, and learning to tie an African Kanga dress. This cross-cultural study also shows kids what challenges Africa faces today while giving them a look at what it is like to live on this interesting continent.

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Harvey Croze is the coauthor of Pyramids of Life and The Serengeti's Great Migration. He is one of the world's foremost experts on African elephants and has been studying them for 35 years as a founding member of the Ambosli Elephant Research Project.

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Witwatersrand University Press 9781868144808 Pub Date: 3/31/09 $39.95/$43.95 Can. Paperback

528 pages Carton Qty: 0 History / Africa HIS001000

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Alexandra-A History Phillip Bonner, Noor Nieftagodien

Alexandra -A History is a social history of one of South Africas oldest townships. It covers the period from the townships founding in 1912, when it was perceived as a peri-urban outpost, through to its growth as a center of black working class life in the heart of Johannesburg, to the post-apartheid era. Declared as a location for 'natives and coloureds,' Alexandra became home to a diverse population where home-owners, tenants, squatters, hostel-dwellers, workers and migrants drawn from every corner of the country converged to make a life in the city. The stories of ordinary people are at the core of the townships history. Based on scores of life history interviews, the book portrays in vivid detail the daily struggles and tribulation of Alexandrans. A focus point is the rich history of political resistance, in which civic movements and political organizations -such as the ANC, Communist Party and socialist organizations like the Movement for Democracy of Content-organized bus boycotts, anti-removal and anti-pass campaigns, and mobilized for housing and a better life for residents....

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Noor Nieftagodien is a researcher based at the History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Phillip Banner is a historian at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa).

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Tempus 9780752433417 Pub Date: 9/1/05 $35.00/$38.95 Can. Trade Paperback

176 pages Carton Qty: 32 History / Ancient HIS002030


Alexandria A City and Myth

Niall Finneran

Alexandria was one of the most important cities of the ancient world, with achievements in the arts, sciences, and religion. Niall Finneran seeks to understand the wider picture, the longer period of evolution as a city, as both an urban concept and a literary and historical ideal. He does this by bringing together the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, history, geography, oral history, art, and literature. As a result, Alexandria is seen as a unique example of African urbanism, an Egyptian city facing the wider Mediterranean world, which became an archetype for social, religious, and cultural cosmopolitanism.

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Mainstream Publishing 9781845961985 Pub Date: 1/22/08 On Sale Date: 1/22/08 $21.95 Can. Trade Paperback

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An A To Z of Ancient Egypt Simon Cox, Susan Davies

Discover the truth about the people, places, gods, and legends in this accessible guidebook, an essential reference for anyone wanting to know more about this remarkable period of history. Questions that have intrigued people for centuries are answered here, such as How were the pyramids built and what do they mean?

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Was there a curse of Tutankhamun? Are the biblical stories about the land of Egypt true? Is there a secret Hall

of Records buried beneath the sands at Giza? If you thought Egypt was interesting before now . . . read on!

Simon Cox is the author of Cracking the Da Vinci Code and Illuminating Angels and Demons. Susan Davies is a researcher and writer specializing in the New Kingdom era of Egyptian history.

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Other Formats Canadian Edition - 8/22/2006 9781845960773


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Madison Press Books 9781897330296 Pub Date: 8/1/09 $19.95 Trade Paperback



Conversations with Mummies New Light on the Lives of Ancient Egyptians

Rosalie David, Rick Archbold

The secrets of ancient Egypt are revealed in this lavishly illustrated study that explores the advances in historical research made possible by the latest state-of-the-art paleopathology technology. The dialogues in this important discussion bring to life a variety of ancient peoples-from the scribe who painted on the walls to the royal family of Sethos I-and sheds light on the daily life in the time of the pharaohs. Also discussing the work of daring researchers who reenact mummification rituals, this fascinating volume offers a wealth of knowledge about the scientific, cultural, and historical impacts of mummies.

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Rosalie David is the former keeper of Egyptology at the Manchester Museum, the director of the International Mummy Database, and the first female professor of Egyptology in Britain. She is the author of numerous books on

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Egyptian history, including Ancient Egypt, Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt, and Religion and Magic in Ancient

Egypt. Rick Archbold is a writer, an editor, a nature conservationist, and the author of An Artist in Nature and Natural Worlds. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Sussex Academic Press 9781845193874 Pub Date: 4/1/10 $74.95/$93.95 Can. Discount Code: SHO Hardcover



Egypt's African Empire Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon and the Creation of Equatoria

Alice Moore-Harell

This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account has previously been published on the effort to conquer and create a new Egyptian province in the 1870s in the interior of Africa, despite its importance to the history of the on-going north-south conflict in the Sudan. … The annexation of Equatoria emerged from the Khedive (viceroy) Ismail's aspiration for an African empire that would control the source of the White Nile at Lake Victoria. At the time he was under pressure from the British government to suppress the lucrative slave trade in the Turco-Egyptian Sudan, and to this end the new province was to be under direct control of Cairo and not the authorities in Khartoum. … The two conquering expeditions of Equatoria were led by Britons, Samuel Baker and Charles Gordon (later Governor-General of the Sudan). With them were other Europeans, Americans, Sudanese and Egyptians. Baker, Gordon and some of the others left detailed accounts of their experience in the region. All of which contribu...

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Dr Alice Moore-Harell is an independent researcher, after retiring from teaching at the Department of Islam and Middle East, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of the well received Gordon and the Sudan: Prologue to the Mahdiyya 1877-1880 (Frank Cass, 2001).

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Sussex Academic Press 9781845196417 Pub Date: 10/1/14 Ship Date: 10/1/14 $34.95/$41.99 Can. Discount Code: SHO Trade Paperback

240 pages Carton Qty: 24 History / Essays HIS049000


Egypt's African Empire Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon & the Creation of Equatoria

Alice Moore-Harell

This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account has previously been published on the effort to conquer and create a new Egyptian province in the 1870s in the interior of Africa, despite its importance to the history of the on-going north-south conflict in the Sudan. The annexation of Equatoria emerged from the Khedive (viceroy) Ismail's aspiration for an African empire that would control the source of the White Nile at Lake Victoria. At the time he was under pressure from the British government to suppress the lucrative slave trade in the Turco-Egyptian Sudan, and to this end the new province was to be under direct control of Cairo and not the authorities in Khartoum. Official documents from the Egyptian state archive, Dar al-Wathaiq, provide detailed accounts of the politics of the annexation of Equatoria, and these accounts are discussed in their historical context.

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Alice Moore-Harell is an independent researcher and a former professor in the department of Islam and Middle

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East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Gordon and the Sudan: Prologue to the

Mahdiyya 1877-1880.

Souvenir Press 9780285634626 Pub Date: 3/1/00 $14.95

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MAGIC & MYST IN ANCIENT EGYPT Christian Jacq

Folklore, temple and tomb paintings, and hieroglyphic texts are drawn upon to explore the potent and pervading legacy of magic and ritual in ancient Egypt, a legacy that has survived to the present day. To the Egyptians, magic was an exact science with rules that were necessarily observed to placate the gods, ensure good fortune, cure the sick, and guarantee a safe passage through the underworld. This book provides insight into the full meaning of rituals that were designed to ensure health and happiness, preserve life, and smooth the moments of passage-birth, marriage, death, and the continuum of years.

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Author BioChristian Jacq is a noted Egyptologist and the author of the Ramses tetralogy: The Son of Light, The Eternal

Temple, The Battle of Kadesh, and The Lady of Abu Simbel.


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Astrolog Publishing House 9789654943529 Pub Date: 9/1/14 Ship Date: 9/1/14 $16.95/$19.95 Can. Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback


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Nefertiti: A Novel When Nefertiti, the Egyptian Queen, Met the American General "Ike" Eisenhower

Dov Bahat

This novel started 3,300 years ago in Egypt and continues to World War II Germany, juxtaposing two love stories, an ancient and a modern one. The romance evolves through the lives of two families in ancient Egypt. One is King Akhenaten, the almighty Pharaoh, and his wife Nefertiti and their descendants; the second is Ror, a lower-class family whose son Tuthmosis became a talented sculptor. Nefertiti was the most beautiful woman in the world, and a competition was introduced to all artists of Egypt to make the most impressive sculpture of the queen. Tuthmosis created her immortal, beautiful bust, and Nefertiti fell in love with the genius sculptor. The sculpture was then discovered in 1912 by Borchardt, a German archeologist with the Berlin Museum. The young, talented Dr. Klopshtock was appointed to head the Museum team whose task was to investigate and gather every possible piece of information on the admired queen; as he was so dedicated to his work, he gradually fell in love with the image of the beautiful woman. When the war started the Dr. Klopshtock was separated from his family...

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Dov Bahat teaches in the department of geological and environmental sciences at the Ben Gurion University-Beer-Sheva. He is the author of numerous scientific articles, patents, and books, including his book Tectonofractography, a geological term coined by him. In 2004, he began to write Hebrew literature on life in Israel during the last 100 years and has published five novels in Hebrew.

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Tempus 9780752439273 Pub Date: 3/1/07 $35.00/$38.95 Can. Hardcover


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People of Ancient Egypt Charlotte Booth

A fascinating look at some of the individuals who made up the Ancient Egyptian civilization from the Old Kingdom to the end of Cleopatra's reign: kings such as Akhenaten, Horembeb and Ramses II; queens and other influential women; officials like Imhotep, Sennemut and Ramose. The lives of some twenty individuals are reconstructed, and we learn of their families, careers, illnesses and religious beliefs. The book is illustrated by a wide range of photographs and surviving artifacts that would have featured in their everyday lives, people of ancient Egypt creates a vivid portrait of Ancient Egypt and it's peoples.

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Charlotte Booth is a freelance Egyptologist who lectures at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the

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author of The Hyskos Period in Egypt.


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KWS Publishers 9780981773636 Pub Date: 1/1/09 $35.00/$39.00 Can. Hardcover

101 pages color plates, halftones, color supplements Carton Qty: 32 History / Ancient HIS002030


Pharaoh's Flowers (2nd Edition) The Botanical Treasures of Tutankhamun

F. Nigel Hepper

As the golden face of Tutankhamun was found garlanded with fresh flowers exquisitely preserved for 3,000 years, the plants of ancient Egypt are brought back to life in this botanical exploration of the Pharaoh's tomb. Usually ignored by grave robbers intent on gold, the baskets, fabrics, papyri, timber, unguent vases, and model granaries filled to the brim with seeds that were buried with Tutankhamun have survived, completely intact, and each chapter of the book carries detailed descriptions of the plant species found or represented in the tomb, including emmer, fenugreek, chickpea, and types of reed and grass. F. Nigel Hepper groups the plants according to their uses, with categories such as Flowers and Leaves; Oils, Resins, and Perfumes; and Papyrus, Flax, and Other Fibrous Plants. This new edition of the fascinating book that was first published in 1990 has been fully updated to take into account recent finds and interpretations, and it features a revised and annotated further reading section, now with a guide to websites; a glossary of botanical terms; a new diagram of the tomb; ...

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F. Nigel Hepper has written widely on archaeobotany and is a former head of the Tropical African Section and

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Assistant Keeper of the Herbarium at London's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is the author of Illustrated

Encyclopedia of Bible Plants.

KWS Publishers 9780981773605 Pub Date: 1/1/09 $125.00/$138.00 Can. Hardcover

176 pages color plates Carton Qty: 32 History / Ancient HIS002030

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead The Book of Going Forth by Day

James Wasserman, Ogden Goelet, Carol Andrews, Raym...

The ancient purpose of the funerary papyrus known as Book of the Dead of Ani was to guide the Egyptian soul to the afterlife, and the iconic text of the ancient culture is presented here for the first time as a single volume. The original is 78 feet in total length and 3,500 years old; this presentation contains the original facsimile edition from 1890. The hieroglyphic text and vignettes are juxtaposed with the English translation of each chapter on the same page that the Egyptian text occurs. The power, wisdom, and spiritual vision offered in its pages goes back to the spiritual and cultural roots of humanity. This beautiful artifact will be a prized possession for those interested in the world of ancient Egypt-and in the beginnings of civilization itself.

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Author BioJames Wasserman is a graphic designer, an editor, and the author of Illustrated History of the Knights

Templar, The Mystery Traditions: Secret Symbols and Sacred Art, and The Temple of Solomon. He lives in New York City. Dr. Ogden Goelet is a professor of Egyptian language and culture at New York University. He lives in New York City. Carol Andrews is a former curator of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum. Dr. Raymond Faulkner was a renowned British Egyptologist, the translator of many key Egyptological texts, and author of numerous scholarly publications.


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Chartwell Books 9781842432402 Pub Date: 1/21/09 $8.99/$9.99 Can. Hardcover

160 pages Carton Qty: 30 History / Ancient HIS002030 UPC: Item #: 161188


Tutankhamun Egypt's Most Famous Pharoah

Bill Price

The fascinating story of Egypt's most famous Pharaoh.

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Bill Price is the author of Landmarks of the World.

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Chicago Review Press 9781569762868 Pub Date: 7/1/10 $24.95/$27.95 Can. Hardcover



A Swamp Full of Dollars Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

Michael Peel

The largest U.S. trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa, petroleum-rich Nigeria exports half its daily oil production to the United States. Like many African nations with natural resources coveted by the world's superpowers, the country has been shaped by foreign investment and intervention, conflicts among hundreds of ethnic and religious groups, and greed. Polio has boomed along with petroleum, small villages face off with giant oil companies, and scooter drivers run their own ministates. The oil-rich Niger Delta region at the heart of it all is a trouble spot as hot as the local pepper soup.

Blending vivid reportage, history, and investigative journalism, in A Swamp Full of Dollars journalist Michael Peel tells the story of this extraordinary country, which grows ever more wild and lawless by the day as its refined petroleum pumps through our cities. Through a host of colorful characters--from the Area Boy gangsters of Lagos to a corrupt state governor who stashed money in his London penthouse, from the militants in their swamp forest hideouts to oil company executives--Peel makes...

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The former West Africa correspondent for the Financial Times, Michael Peel is now the publication's legal

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correspondent. He has contributed articles on the region to a wide variety of publications, including the New

Republic, the Christian Science Monitor, and the London Review of Books.


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Merlin Press 9780850364996 Pub Date: 8/1/04 $29.95 Discount Code: SHO Trade Paperback



Histories of Namibia Living Through the Liberation Struggle

Colin Leys, Susan Brown

This collection of oral histories reveals the struggles of 10 Namibians in surviving 23 years of war and moving forward with their lives in the aftermath. As this book reveals, though most had endured hardship and hunger and witnessed terrible cruelty and suffering, their outlooks were triumphant and optimistic, and their stories are full of enthusiasm, energy, determination, and purpose. These inspiring stories are representative of a whole generation of Namibians who matured in the struggle, becoming skilled, disciplined, cosmopolitan, and tough.

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Colin Leys is an emeritus professor of political science at Queen's University. Susan Brown is a reporter on Southern Africa living in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Baraka Books 9781926824949 Pub Date: 12/20/13 $24.95/$24.95 Can. Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback



Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction

Robin Philpot

Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that "the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsiblity." Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly one million Tutsis after the Rwandan presidential plane crashed in the heart of dark Africa on April 6, 1994. Where do these two contradictory narratives come from? Which is true? Robin Philpot's vast and methodical research, extensive interviews, and close analysis of events, testimony in courts, and popular writings on the subject show not only that that official narrative is false, but that it was edified to cover up the causes of the tragedy and to protect the criminals responsible for it. What's more, to make that story more believable, the storytellers have unfailingly reproduced the literary traditions, clichés, and metaphors that provided the underpinnings of slavery, the slave-trade, and colonialism. Nearly 20 years later, the facts about the Rwandan tragedy have been so distorted and the adjudi...

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Robin Philpot is a writer, translator, and publisher. He is the author of six books in French on international and Canada/Quebec political issues and is coauthor with Jacques Lacoursière of A People's History of Quebec. He lives in Montreal.

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Jacana Media 9780987043726 Pub Date: 8/1/13 Ship Date: 8/1/13 $20.95/$23.95 Can. Trade Paperback


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50 People Who Stuffed Up South Africa Alexander Parker, Zapiro

Part history and part social commentary, 50 People Who Stuffed Up South Africa is an engrossing and edifying

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read that delves into South African politics, war, sport, and culture on its way to answering the question, Who

are the greatest villains, the direst leaders, the foulest corrupters, and the most offensive personalities to have

spread their regrettable influence throughout the land? From Jan van Riebeeck in 1652 to Jacob Zuma in 2012-via Wouter Basson, P. W. Botha, Shaka, and Schabir Shaik-the book focuses on men (and three women) of infamy who jeopardized the nation by virtue of their ruinous megalomania (Thabo Mbeki, Cecil Rhodes), foul convictions (Hendrik Verwoerd, Eugène Terre'Blanche), or, in the author's opinion, general idiocy (Julius Malema, Alec Erwin). Beyond the obvious political manipulators and historical figures, however, this collection also includes statesmen and sportsmen of dubious distinction, as well as nonpareil social delinquents such as minibus taxi drivers.

Alexander Parker is the motor industries editor for Business Day newspaper. A journalist, his work appears

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regularly in a number of South African newspapers and magazines. He is the author of 25 Cars to Drive Before

You Die and 50 Flippen Brilliant South Africans. Zapiro is the penname of Jonathan Shapiro, South Africa's leading political cartoonist. He is the editorial cartoonist for the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Times, and the Times, and the author of But Will It Stand Up in Court?, Do You Know Who I Am?!, Don't Mess with the

President's Head, and Pirates of Polokwane. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the International Publishers Association Freedom to Publish Prize, the Media Institute of Southern Africa Press Freedom Award, the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper award for Graphic Journalism, and the Vodacom Cartoonist of the Year award.

Real African Publishers 9780986996801 Pub Date: 10/1/11 $24.95/$26.95 Can. Trade Paperback


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A Double-Edged Sword (3rd Edition) A Quest for a Place in the African Sun

Phathekile Holomisa, President Jacob Gedleyihlekis...

Providing insight into South African values and culture, this book is a comprehensive study of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) and its role in history. Essentially, it examines the Contralesa's position during the Mass Democratic Movement's struggles in the late 1980s-when liberation movements were unbanned and their leaders were released from jail-as well as during the post-1994 era of Nelson Mandela. A valuable resource, this reference will captivate those interested in the issue of governance, institutional change, and the interface between designed modernity and surviving traditions.

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Phathekile Holomisa is a founding member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers, a member of Parliament, and the president of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa. He is also the author of According to Tradition and an occasional columnist for some of South Africa's leading publications. President

Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is the President of South Africa as well as the President of the African National Congress.

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Jacana Media 9781770092082 Pub Date: 4/1/07 Ship Date: 4/1/07 $19.00/$23.95 Can. Trade Paperback


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People on the Boil Reflections on June 16, 1976 and Beyond 30th Anniversary Edition

Harry Mashabela, Es'kia Mphahlele

Jacana Media 9781920196103 Pub Date: 9/1/09 $24.95/$27.95 Can. Trade Paperback



An Elusive Harvest Working with Smallholder Farmers in South Africa

David Catling, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

Detailing the undocumented work of a pioneering nongovernmental organization that actively supported disadvantaged farmers during a critical period in the country's history, this rare account unveils the agricultural developments that enabled South Africa's transformation into a democratic nation. From its conception in the early 1990s to its untimely demise, this invaluable documentation assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the Land Development Unit (LDU)-evaluating the organization's philosophy and strategy, management, funding, methods used in field projects and public-awareness activities and exploring why the LDU proved to be so vulnerable an institution. Meticulously researched and culturally insightful, this revelatory account is a significant and important footnote in the often overlooked history of independent agricultural development in South Africa.

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David Catling is the founding member and leader of the Land Development Unit. Archbishop Emeritus

Desmond Tutu is the spiritual leader of South Africa and a Nobel Prize laureate.

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Asijiki A History of the South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU)

Kally Forrest

The history of modern black, non-racial trade unions in South Africa is about both a struggle to change workplace conditions and a struggle against white domination. This history of SACCAWU and its predecessor CCAWUSA from 1975-2005 traces the details of this impressive struggle.

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Human Sciences Research Council 9780796918963 Pub Date: 6/1/99 $26.95/$29.95 Can. Trade Paperback



Black Student Politics, Higher Education & Apartheid From SASO to SANSCO 1968-1990

Saleem Badat


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Real African Publishers 9781919855172 Pub Date: 10/1/04 $39.95/$49.95 Can. Hardcover



Come Back Africa Lionel Rogosin - A Man Possessed

Lionel Rogosin

This intriguing account describes the author's grueling and often dangerous true encounters with apartheid society during the making of a film that would shed light on the oppressed.

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Community, Self and Identity Educating South African University Students for Citizenship

Brenda Leibowitz, Leslie Swartz, Vivienne Bozalek,...

Education in South Africa is in crisis, and this resource provides an opportunity to learn from a bold experiment in teaching and learning taking place across two very different universities, one historically black, the other historically white and Afrikaans. The book purports that as low literacy and numeracy rates, poor discipline, and a sense of despair pervade the education landscape, educators are called upon to achieve more, with universities tasked to produce graduates capable of exercising responsible and reflective citizenship in a competitive and globalizing world. With a mixture of rigorous scholarship, thoughtful self-reflection, and insights with relevance far beyond their own project, the contributors to this groundbreaking volume take readers systematically through an account of the potential and the limitations of imaginative innovations for transforming higher education in South Africa, inviting an ongoing discussion about the future.

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Brenda Leibowitz is an associate professor and the director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Leslie Swartz is a professor of psychology at Stellenbosch University and a former director in the child, youth, family, and social-development research program at the Human

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Sciences Research Council. She is the coauthor of Zip Zip My Brain Harts and the coeditor of Disability and

Social Change: A South African Agenda and Promoting Mental Health in Scarce-Resource Contexts. Vivienne

Bozalek is a professor of social work and the director of teaching and learning at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Ronelle Carolissen is an associate professor of community psychology and the chair of the department of educational psychology at Stellenbosch University. Lindsey Nicholls is a lecturer at the School for Health Science and Social Care at Brunel University in London. Poul Rohleder is a principal lecturer of psychology and a course group leader at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England.


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Democracy & Governance Review Mandela's Legacy '94-99

Yvonne Muthien, Meshack Khosa, Bernard Magubane




Deracialisation and Migration of Learners in South African Schools Challenges and Implications

Patience Sekete, Mmamajoro Shilubane, Badiri Moila...


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Do South Africans Exist? Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of "the People"

Ivor Chipkin

"Philosophically grounded, theoretically nuanced, politically controversial and yet urgently relevant, Do South

Africans Exist? contains within its pages the four elements necessary to make it an absolute must read'. Focused

on the question of what constitutes South Africanness, what makes us a nation, its argument is relevant to

probably every major debate about contemporary South Africa. Ultimately this book is about the South African

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political experiment and the potential for its consolidation." --Adam Habib, Human Sciences Research Council,

South Africa

"Do South Africans Exist? makes a sharp, original and distinctive contribution to the existing literature on

nationalism and nation-building in South Africa. It traverses several disciplines--political philosophy, historicised

political science, and critical theory--and in doing so, reintroduces the particular case of African nationalism into

the more general understanding of nations and nationalism." --Colin Bundy, Green College, Oxford, U.K.

"This book is a major contribution to political theory, of democracy and of nationalism,...

Ivor Chipkin is professor and executive director of the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI).

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Every Step of the Way The Journey to Freedom in South Africa

Ministry of Education, Michael Morris

From precolonial times to the present, this look at South African history provides fascinating personal and

historical details and raises provocative questions about the choices, mistakes, contradictions, and key themes

in the development of South Africa's complex society. A broad sweep of history is detailed-from the distant past

of the hunter-gatherer and African farmer societies to colonial exploration and conquest, slavery, enforced

segregation, and the struggle for liberation-and enhanced by intriguing human interest narratives that includes

excerpts from the memoirs of Jan van Riebeeck and the writings of Rich Mkondo, poems by Wally Serote, song

lyrics by Johannes Kerkorrel and Jeremy Taylor, and statements and recollections by Nelson Mandela.

Observations by 19th-century novelist Anthony Trollope, academic Mamphela Ramphela, Nobel Laureate Nadine

Gordimer, veteran journalist Allister Sparks and celebrated South African photographer Benny Gool are also

included.

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The Ministry of Education commissioned this work. Michael Morris has been a newspaper journalist for 24

years and is the special writer at the Cape Argus newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa.

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University of Cape Town Press 9781919895901 Pub Date: 5/1/13 $40.00/$40.00 Can. Discount Code: SHO Trade Paperback



Falls the Shadow Between the Promise and the Reality of the South African Constitution

Kristina Bentley, Laurie Nathan, Richard Calland

The gap between the promise of the South African constitution and the reality of life for most South Africans is

a significant problem that requires urgent attention, and this book explores that gap-its causes, its meaning, and

its implications. On the face of it, the country's constitution provides for the security of all the people in South

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Africa; yet most of the population is socially, economically, physically, and psychologically insecure. Falls the

Shadow looks at the causes, meaning, and implications of this gap and tackles these subjects in a forthright and

rigorous fashion, alerting readers to the dimensions and perils of the "constitutional shadow."

Kristina Bentley is the senior research officer with the democratic governance and rights unit in the department

of public law at the University of Cape Town. She is a coauthor of Racial Redress and Citizenship in South Africa.

Laurie Nathan is a research fellow at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics.

Richard Calland is an associate professor in the Department of Public Law and the director of the Democratic

Governance and Rights Unit (DGRU) at the University of Cape Town.

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Five Hundred Years Rediscovered Southern African Precedents and Prospects

Natalie Swanepoel, Amanda Esterhuysen, Phillip Bon...

In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more

appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains

disfigured by colonial/ apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are depicted as

fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened. Five Hundred Years Rediscovered: Southern African

Precedents and Prospects represents the first step, taken by a group of archaeologists and historians, to

collectively reframe, revitalize and re-examine the last 500 years. By integrating research and developing trans-

frontier research networks, the group hopes to challenge thinking about the regions expanding internal and

colonial frontiers, and to broaden current perceptions about southern Africas colonial past.

Summary

Amanda Esterhusyen is an archaeologist at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Phillip Banner is a historian at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa).

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Inside Indian Indenture (2nd Edition) A South African Story, 1860-1914

Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed

A timely and monumental recollection, this consideration captures the crossing of the sea undertaken by

immigrants from India in the late 1800s. Illustrating their travels from their home country to colonial South Africa,

this narrative demonstrates the multiple beginnings that made up the indentured experience for these wandering

exiles. The overview explores the terrain of the everyday by focusing on religious and cultural expressions,

leisure activities, power relations on the plantations, the weapons of resistance, and forms of collaboration that

were developed in conflicts with the colonial overlords. Fascinating accounts brimming with desire and tender

mercies-as much as with oppression and exploitation-show that the indentured were as much agents as they

were victims and silent witnesses, painting a clear portrait of both cooperation and discord between Indians and

Africans. Revising the contours of South African Indian historiography, this investigation expertly weaves its

themes into the mainstream of Southern African studies, highlighting an often overlooked minority commu...

Summary

Ashwin Desai is one of South Africa's foremost social commentators. He is a professor at the University of

Johannesburg in South Africa and a former visiting research fellow in the Institute of Social and Economic

Author Bio

Research at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He is the author of Blacks in Whites: A Century of

Cricket Struggles in Kwazulu-Natal and We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

Goolam Vahed is an associate professor in the department of historical studies at the University of KwaZulu-

Natal in South Africa. He is the coauthor of The Making of a Political Reformer: Gandhi in South Africa, 1893-

1914.

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London Recruits The Secret War Against Apartheid

Ken Keable, Ronnie Kasrils, Z. Pallo Jordan

The history of the antiapartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but

another story went on behind the scenes, in secret. This is the story of the foreign volunteers and their

activities in South Africa, how they acted in defiance of the apartheid government and its police on the

instructions of the African National Congress (ANC). From the transportation of weapons to the passage of ANC

fighters into South Africa, this account describes the many risks taken by the volunteers-many of whom were

young communists, Trotskyists, or independent socialists who traveled from the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands,

and the United States-to join the cause.

Summary

Ken Keable is a former antiapartheid foreign volunteer. Z. Pallo Jordan is the former minister of arts and culture

of the Republic of South Africa and a former member of the research unit of the African National Congress. He

was also elected to be a member of parliament in the National Assembly of South Africa and is the former

minister of environmental affairs and tourism. Ronnie Kasrils is the author of Unlikely Secret Agent and the

former minister for intelligence services. He is also a former member of the National Executive Committee of the

African National Congress as well as a former member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist

Party.

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Mapping ICT Access in South Africa Kholadi Tlabela, Joan Roodt, Andrew Paterson, Gina...

Explaining the importance of information and communication technologies (ICT) for the growth and development

of South African citizens, this systematic report identifies both the cost of telecommunications and the

availability of ICT infrastructures as key factors that are frustrating economic growth. Mapping access to ICT

along the visible digital divide, this detailed monograph traces the advances that South Africa has made in

developing its infrastructures, and seeks to maximize development opportunities.

Summary

Kholadi Tlabela is a deputy director at the Department of Correctional Services in South Africa. Joan Roodt is

a chief researcher in the education, science, and skills development research program at the Human Sciences

Research Council (HSRC). Andrew Paterson is a research director in the Education, Science and Skills

Development research program at the HSRC. Gina Weir-Smith is a chief GIS specialist in the Knowledge

Systems research program at the HSRC.

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Mapping South Africa A Historical Survey of South African Maps and Charts

Andrew Duminy

Filled with beautiful reproductions of some 85 maps, this is the first survey of the fascinating story of maps and

mapmaking in the subcontinent. Beginning with the Portuguese voyages of exploration in the late 15th century, it

explores the attempts of the Dutch and the British to chart and lay claim to the vast and expanding landscape of

the Cape Colony. Subsequent chapters investigate the maps of the Eastern Cape, where a series of frontier wars

led to an outpouring of cartography, as well as the maps of colonial Natal and the Boer Republics of the

Transvaal and Free State, where cartography was driven, conversely, by the dictates of colonization and land

exploitation. Drawing upon several scholarly articles, this history reveals an appreciation of the close relation

between science, exploration, and cartography and gives due prominence to the role played by individuals as

well as institutions in producing maps of increasing accuracy and detail.

Summary

Author BioAndrew Duminy is a professor emeritus at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the coauthor of Fitzpatrick:

South African Politician Selected Papers, 1888-1906 and the author of François Renier Duminy: French Mariner

and South African Pioneer, 1747-1811.


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Metal That Will Not Bend The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, 1980-1995

Kally Forrest

This volume traces the themes of power, independence, and workers’ control as they were practiced by Numsa.

A number of small metal organizations, with at times antagonistic organizational and political strategies, were

built in different ways and with different attitudes to the exiled liberation movements of the early 1980s. They

eventually unified into one powerful organization. Forrest describes how workers’ struggles built this power, and

she scrutinizes the strategies used in the late 1980s, such as innovative bargaining strategies, to significantly

improve the conditions of South Africa’s impoverished workers. The volume then progresses to examine how

Numsa used its power in an attempt to insert a workers’ perspective into the political transition of the early

1990s. It explores the obstacles the union faced, such as the violence that erupted across the country, and its

commonality and divergence from the politics of the liberation movements (chiefly the ANC).

Summary

Kally Forrest has edited and published a number of popular books on South African trade union histories.

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One Hundred Years of the ANC Debating Liberation Histories Today

Arianna Lissoni, Jon Soske, Natasha Erlank, Noor N...

On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, the oldest African nationalist

organization on the continent, celebrated its 100th anniversary and this historic event generated significant

public debate within both the ANC and South African society at large. Critically reflecting on the ANC's historical

trajectory and struggle against colonialism and apartheid than in its centennial year, this is a collection of new

work by renowned South African and international scholars. Covering a broad chronological and geographical

spectrum and using a diverse range of sources, the contributors build upon but also extend the historiography of

the ANC by tapping into marginal spaces in ANC history. By moving away from the celebratory mode that has

characterized much of the contemporary discussions on the centenary, the contributors suggest that the

relationship between the histories of earlier struggles and the present needs to be rethought in more complex

terms. Collectively, the book chapters challenge hegemonic narratives that have become an established part of

South Af...

Summary

Arianna Lissoni is currently a postdoctoral fellow at North-West University in Mafikeng. Jon Soske is an

assistant professor of modern African history in the department of history and classical studies at McGill

University. He lives in Montreal. Natasha Erlank teaches at the University of Johannesburg. Noor Nieftagodien

serves as the deputy chair of the History Workshop and is a senior lecturer in the history department at the

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University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He is the coauthor of Alexandra: A History and Orlando West,

Soweto. Omar Badsha is a self-taught, award-wining artist and photographer. He played an active role in the

South African liberation struggle, as a cultural and political activist and trade union leader. He is the founder and

currently the director of South African History Online, a website and publishing venture on South African history

and culture.


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People of the Dew A History of the Bafokeng of Rustenburg District, South Africa, from Early Times to 2000

Bernard Mbenga, Andrew Manson

The Bafokeng tribe has become an established and well-known community in South Africa with a reputation that

can be attributed to their considerable wealth derived from platinum mining and direct investment in mining

ventures. Employing written, oral, and archaeological sources, this detailed history traces the emergence of the

Bafokeng, their settlement in the western Highveld, and their consolidation under various capable leaders during

the period of white rule from the 1830s to the early 20th century. It explores, among other topics, the

Bafokeng's history with missionaries, their land acquisition, and their disputes with the powerful white minority.

One of the first books to document the Bafokeng people, this record provides insight into one of the remaining

South African monarchies.

Summary

Bernard Mbenga is a history lecturer at North-West University in South Africa and the head of history at the

Author Bio

University of Northwest. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of African History and of the South

African History Journal. Andrew Manson is a former history professor and department head at North-West

University in South Africa and a former archivist at the South African Institute of Race Relations. His work has

been published in several journals, including the Canadian Journal of African Studies, the International Journal of

Historical Studies, and the Journal of Southern African Studies.




Post Apartheid Patterns of Internal Migration in South Africa Pieter Kok, Michael O'Donovan, Oumar Bouare, Johan...


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South Africa: Vol. II Anthony Trollope

Always a keen traveler, Anthony Trollope toured South Africa in 1877 and provides a fascinating account of his

travels around a still untamed land at a time when British rule was being challenged by the native peoples.

Trollope relates an insightful history of the first Dutch and then British colonial rule imposed over the native

peoples, as well as vivid descriptions of the people, the architecture, the landscape and the sights and sounds

of late 19th-century South Africa. It is in his dealings with the natives that Trollope is at his most fascinating

and unusually perceptive. His own views reflect the common opinion of the day that colonial rule could only

improve their lives, but at the same time gives an insight into the negative effects of colonialism on the natives

and the grievances it created. South Africa is an unrivalled account of the land and all its people by a master

writer, and is a fascinating description of a small but vital part of the British Empire during its prime.

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South Africa's Role in Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking in Africa Conference Proceedings

Roger Southall

Drawing from a workshop conducted on behalf of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, these case studies analyze

South Africa's peacekeeping attempts since the end of apartheid and discuss its vigorous peacemaking efforts in

specific countries, such as Burundi and the Ivory Coast. This collection explores not only the role of truth

commissions and the gendered nature of South African peace processes but also the obstacles standing in the

country's way due to its simultaneous existence as an arms manufacturer and weapons exporter. Ten principles

for best practice are also suggested.

Summary

Roger Southall is a distinguished research fellow of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and a former

professor of political studies at Rhodes University. He is coeditor of the HSRC's highly acclaimed State of the

Nation volumes and editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

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Southern African Liberation Struggles New Local, Regional and Global Perspectives

Hilary Sapire, Chris Saunders

Probing beyond the heroic portrayals of armed struggles and nationalist resistance, this collection of essays

illustrates the intertwined histories of Southern African liberation struggles and those of regional and international

solidarity movements, beginning in the 1960s through the establishment of a nonracial democracy in South Africa

in 1994. As this collection seeks to present more nuanced accounts of the solidarity movements that flourished

alongside the liberation and exile movements-such as the British-based Anti-Apartheid Movement-it draws

together internal and external struggles in exile. Unique and detailed, it offers new insights into the relationships

that exiles and guerrillas developed with host societies and solidarity organizations, both within the southern

African region and in the United Kingdom.

Summary

Hilary Sapire is a professor of imperial and southern African history at Birkbeck College at the University of

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London. She is the editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies and the coauthor of African Apocalypse: The

Story of Nontetha Nwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet. Chris Saunders is an emeritus

professor of historical studies at the University of Cape Town. He is author of numerous books, including The

Making of the South African Past, and the coauthor of the fifth edition of South Africa A Modern History. He has

also contributed to The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume 3, and The Cambridge History of South

Africa, Volume 2.


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State of the Nation South Africa 2008

Peter Kagwanja, Kwandiwe Kondlo

Drawing from the ranks of academics, political analysts, civil society, and the research community, this annual

collection of intellectual commentaries features a range of pertinent and captivating contemporary viewpoints on

social and cultural South African issues. With discussions on the role of black consciousness in South African

politics, urbanism and the changing South African housing policy, globalization and transformation in the South

African Merchant Navy, and South Africa's role in the United Nations Security Council, these insightful essays

each reflect a finger kept firmly on the South African pulse.

Summary

Dr Kwandiwe Kondlo is executive director of the Democracy and Governance programme at the HSRC. He holds

an MA in Economic History, University of Cape Town, and obtained a DLitt et Phil (PhD) in Historical Studies from

the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2003.Before joining the HSRC in March 2008, he was the chief

executive officer of the South African Chamber of Commerce. Dr Kondlo has also worked as special advisor on

Land Reform Policy in the South African Department of Land Affairs and Agriculture (2006-2007), and as policy

and research executive at the South African National Prosecuting Authority (2001-2005). Peter Kagwanja is a

research fellow at the department of political science at the University of Pretoria and a director in the

democracy and governance research program at the HSRC.

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State of the Nation South Africa 2007

Sakhela Buhlungu, John Daniel, Roger Southall, Jes...

From the outcome of the 2006 local elections and the state of public hospitals to environmental issues and

concerns about tourism, leading South African intellectuals explore a variety of issues central to the country's

development in this annual collection of essays. Insightful discussions of contemporary South Africa also address

key topics such as violence against women, prison reform, the vast Zimbabwean exile community, and the role of

the post-apartheid church.

Summary

Sakhela Buhlungu is head of the department of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He sits on

the editorial boards of Labour History and Society in Transition. John Daniel is a former research director in the

Democracy and Governance research program at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Roger Southall

is a distinguished research fellow of the HSRC and a former professor of political studies at Rhodes University. He

is editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. Jessica Lutchman is a former researcher in the

Democracy and Governance research program at the HSRC.

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The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War A Social History

Elizabeth van Heyningen

A general history of the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War, and the first to make an in-depth use of

the very rich and extensive official documents in the South African and British archives, this book provides a

fresh perspective on a topic that understandably arouses emotions because of the great numbers of Afrikaners-

especially women and children-who died in the camps. Set in the larger context of colonialism at the end of the

19th century, this fascinating account overturns many previously held assumptions and conclusions. Arguing that

British views on poverty, poor relief, and the management of colonial societies all shaped administration, this

social history also attempts to explain why the camps were so badly administered in the first place and why

reform was so slow-suggesting that divided responsibility, ignorance, political opportunism, and a failure to

understand the needs of such institutions all played a part.

Summary

Elizabeth van Heyningen is a former professor in the department of historical studies at the University of Cape

Town in South Africa. She is the coauthor of The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History and

Cape Town: The Making of a City.

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The Deaths of Hintsa Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts

Premesh Lalu

Following the tracks of South African traditional leader Nicholas Gcaleka, this account explores the reasons for

his postapartheid journey to Great Britain as well as the public derision that accompanied him. Arguing that the

sources of derision can be found in the modes of evidence established by colonial power, this exploration traces

Gcaleka's search for the remains of the tribal leader Hintsa, who was killed by British troops during the South

African colonial period. Calling for a postcolonial critique of apartheid and for new models for writing histories, this

reconstruction offers a new perspective of the colonial archive, suggesting a blurring of the distinction between

history and historiography in order to forge a postapartheid history.

Summary

Premesh Lalu is an associate professor of history at the University of the Western Cape. He is the chair of the

program on the study of the humanities in Africa and a trustee of the District Six Museum Foundation in Cape

Town. His work has been featured in the journals Current Writing, History and Theory, History in Africa, Kronos,

and The South African Historical Journal.

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The Development of Competition Law and Economics in South Africa Kasturi Moodaliyar, Simon Roberts

An important and timely contribution to rapidly growing competition law in South Africa, this study meets the

need for critical evaluation of the developments in the field since the Competition Act came into force in 1999.

Chapters cover vital questions ranging from broad policy considerations to technical issues in the main areas of

competition evaluation, namely merger assessment, abuse-of-dominance enforcement, and the detection and

prosecution of cartels. The book reflects on the maturing South African competition law regime and discusses a

framework for promotion competition in electronic communications; vertical arithmetic and its application in

vertical mergers; price discrimination in input markets; the empirical differences between collusion, parallelism,

and competition; and the role of information exchange in facilitating collusion.

Summary

Kasturi Moodaliyar is a senior lecturer of competition law at the University of Witwatersrand's School of Law

and a former enforcement and exemptions investigator and merger analyst. She is an appeal tribunal member of

the Film and Publication Board and an adjudicating member of ICASA's Complaints and Compliance Commission.

She is the coordinating editor for the Butterworths Competition Law Reports and has been published

internationally. Simon Roberts is chief economist and manager of the Policy & Research Division of the

Competition Commission of South Africa and a former manager of the Enforcement & Exemptions Division of the

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same. He has been published widely, including in the Journal of African Economies, the Journal of Competition

Law and Economics, the Journal of International Development, and the South African Journal of Economics.

They both live in Johannesburg.


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The Origins of Non-Racialism White Opposition to Apartheid in the 1950s

David Everatt

This book tells some of the stories and hidden histories that help explain our past. It focuses on a talented,

brave, but tiny minority of whites, liberals, radicals, communists, Trotskyists, humanists, Christians, and idealists

who rejected the growing racism of post-war South Africa and worked to breach the dividing line between black

and white. From the Torch Commando that could mobilize tens of thousands of whites at the beginning of the

1950s to the Liberal Party and Congress of Democrats that could only boast a few hundred members by the end

of the decade, white activists fought to maintain the vision of racial equality in an increasingly divided society.

Their African nationalist allies fought a harder battle within the ANC and other organizations in order to keep alive

the notion that black and white could struggle together and live peacefully. Together, black and white activists

developed a theory of struggle and ways of mobilizing that maintained the ideal of a non-racial South Africa. The

democratic state ushered in after 1994 can be traced back directly to the work that...

Summary

David Everatt is the executive director of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory, a joint project of the University

of Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Gauteng Provincial Government.

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The Prize and the Price Shaping Sexualities in South Africa

Melissa Steyn, Mikki van Zyl

Engaging and provocative, the collection gathers leading and emerging scholars to disentangle the strands of

particular sexual identities and deepen understanding of the multiple workings of heteronormativity in South

African society in particular and sexuality in general. Through analyzing where and how heteronormativity

intersects with other axes of power and social identity, contributors to this collection reveal that it is not

monolithic, and heterosexuality as the South African norm is effectively omitted from heteronormativity.

Examining the historical continuities and interruptions of heteronormativity in South African society, each chapter

extends beyond the well-researched areas of sexuality-same sexualities, HIV/AIDS, and gender-based violence-

to less-discussed areas such as childhood sexuality and disability.

Summary

Melissa Steyn is an associate professor of sociology and the director of intercultural and diversity studies of

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southern Africa at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used to Be:

White Identity in a Changing South Africa, which was awarded an outstanding scholarship award from the

National Communication Association. Mikki van Zyl, a lifelong antiapartheid and gender activist, has lectured in

media studies, sociology, criminology, disability studies, and diversity studies. She is the coeditor of Performing

Queer.


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The Theatre of Violence Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Maresa de Beer

Exposing often overlooked aspects of state repression and political violence, this profound and deeply compassionate study documents the often contradictory and confusing stories of those who committed some of the most dreadful deeds during South Africa's apartheid era. In telling their stories, individuals on various sides of the apartheid divide, from the police force and intelligence officers to grassroots activists and members of township self-protection units, offer the first critical examination of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's amnesty process, show how media representations of protagonists inform public perceptions, and scrutinize international scholarly writings on the issue of political violence. Tracing political violence in South Africa from 1960 to 1994, these accounts show how an overarching theater of violence forced protagonists to compete with each other, almost spiralling South Africans into a political vortex that risked outright societal disintegration.

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Author BioDon Foster is a professor of psychology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the author of Detention and

Torture in South Africa. He assisted the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in understanding perpetrators' actions. Paul Haupt is a UCT-qualified clinical psychologist and the former director of perpetrator studies at the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town. Marésa de Beer is a UCT-trained clinical psychologist in private practice.



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The World that Made Mandela A Heritage Trail: 70 Sites of Significance Luli Callinicos

Using a thousand images of past and present, The world that made Mandela moves from rural villages to the hectic metropolis, from District Six to Robben Island. Tracing his footsteps through sites of public struggle and private development, it illuminates many hidden spaces in our history, while casting new light on the familiar. South Africans will find this book a rich reflection of their cultural and political heritage, and visitors to the country will discover in it the faces of our past and our people. The book breaks new ground in South African biography by identifying both the people and the places that shaped the life of a great man.

Summary

Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg of Hellenic descent. She became involved in the struggle for democracy in South Africa at an early age and taught history in schools and the emerging trade movement. She recently published the biography of Oliver Tambo, leader and President of the ANC during its thirty years in exile.

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Troublemakers The Best of South Africa's Investigative Journalism Anton Harber, Margaret Renn

A collection of finalists of the Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Reporting, this book illustrates the revival of hard-hitting investigative reporting in South Africa and highlights its important role. These exposés range from government corruption and white collar crime to environmental and social issues. With a comprehensive discussion on the state of South African journalism, these stories were originally published by the country's most reputable newspapers and make no qualms about covering the controversial: the horrors of Zimbabwe prisons, shifty politicians, and shoot-to-kill policemen.

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Anton Harber is the Caxton Professor of Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a columnist for Business Day. He is a founding editor of the Mail & Guardian, the chair of the

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Freedom of Expression Institute, and the coeditor of The A-Z of SA Politics and What is Left Unsaid: Reporting

the South African HIV Epidemic. Margaret Renn is the Taco Kuiper Fellow in Investigative Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a former investigative journalist who worked for the BBC's Rough Justice program, for the Daily Mirror, and for the Center for Investigative Journalism in London. She is the coauthor of Thatcher's Reign: A Bad Case of the Blues.




Truth Is a Strange Fruit A Personal Journey Through the Apartheid War David Beresford

In 1964, Johannesburg's Park Street station was bombed, and the so-called "mad bomber," John Harris, was hanged. A shocking revelation, this account discloses that former Prime Ministers Hendrik Verwoed and John Vorster and the former head of the security police, General Hendrik van den Berg, conspired in a crime that led to an innocent man's execution. It argues that the three most powerful political figures in South Africa at the time were aware that the bomb had been planted and chose not to disarm it in the hopes that it would deliver a blow to the antiapartheid movement. Also investigating the involvement of a Zionist terrorist organization in the Park Street bombing and the role of President Jacob Zuma in the activities of the African National Congress in exile, this history will enlighten anyone interested in the apartheid or in the political workings of South Africa.

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David Beresford is a correspondent for the Guardian with more than 25 years of experience; he covered the conflicts in Ireland, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan and the first Gulf War. He is the author of 10 Men Dead.

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White Lies Canon Collins and the Secret War Against Apartheid Denis Herbstein

The remarkable unofficial activities of John Collins, both the Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London and an eminent antiapartheid activist and organizer, is detailed in this account of his life and work.

Summary

Author BioDenis Herbstein writes for the Financial Times in London. He is the author of The North Downs Way; The

Porthole Murder Case; and White Man, We Want to Talk to You.


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Women in South African History Basus'iimbokodo, Bawel'imilambo / They Remove Boulders and Cross Rivers Nomboniso Gasa

In this collection of essays, the often-marginalized voices of South African women are presented, in four chronological sections, as a nuanced and complex narrative that provides new interpretations and different readings on the major phases of South African history. Activists and academics seek to illuminate the struggle for emancipation, and their interrogation of past conflict and present issues creates an overtly feminist perspective that captures the constant struggles and movements of women in South Africa.

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Nomboniso Gasa is the editor of Democracy in Nigeria: Continuing Dialogues for Nation-Building.

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Women: South Africans of Indian Origin Devi Moodley Rajab, Ranjith Kally

Examining the placement of Indian women in South African society, this engaging history features profiles and photographic portraits as it imparts a rich cultural milieu beyond aromatic spices and glittering jewelry. Arguing that postapartheid freedom has allowed for a renaissance among women achievers in the Indian community, this book not only charts the areas where this development has occurred but also shares the hopes of the women too often ignored in public discourse. A story of resilience that transcended the system of indenture, this celebratory narrative pays tribute to the spirit of South African women of Indian descent.

Summary

Devi Moodley Rajab is a psychologist; an award-winning journalist for the Mercury in Durban, South Africa; and a columnist for Confluence, a London-based newspaper on South Asian perspectives. She is the four-time recipient of the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award and the recipient of the Turquoise Harmony Institute Media Award for outstanding journalism. She is also the author of Devi's Diary and No Subject Is Taboo. Ranjith Kally is an award-winning photographer whose career has spanned four decades. He was a principal photographer for the iconic Drum Magazine, and his work has been exhibited as part of the Nobel Peace Center's commemoration of South Africa's Nobel Peace laureates. He is an associate of the Royal Photographic Society and the author of The Struggle: 60 Years in Focus.

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Young Warriors Youth Politics, Identity, and Violence in South Africa Monique Marks

Much has been written about South Africa’s “lost generation” —the generation of politicized youth who dedicated their lives to the liberation of a nation, and who have “lost” everything in the process. Young Warriors is about this generation, but it is also a critique of the very concept of a “lost generation.” It is the story of activists who have become leaders, provincial premiers and national ministers in our democratic society. While focusing on the lives of the men and women who lived in Diepkloof, a black “township” in South Africa, it is also the narrative of many black South Africans who “grew up” in the organizations of the ANC-led liberation movement.

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Monique Marks is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Natal, Durban

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Back Roads of the Cape David Fleminger

Rich with historical narratives, personal recollections, reflections on politics, environmental debates, social observation, and practical travel information, this honest and opinionated book is a far cry from the typical sponsored travel guide. The author's idiosyncratic writing style and humor flavor the travel experience and impart a sense of immediacy and adventure, and resources for further information are listed in the back of the book, encouraging a personalized adventure.

Summary

David Fleminger is a freelance writer, television producer, and theater director. He is a born-and-bred Johannesburg native with a passion for travel.

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Cape Landscapes Sir John Herschel's Sketches 1834?1838 Brian Warner

The life and sketches of Sir John Herschel-one of the most noted astronomers of the 19th century-are documented in this unparalleled contribution to the artistic and historical records of the Cape of Good Hope. An accomplished artist, Herschel used an optical device known as a camera lucida to create more than one hundred exquisite sketches depicting the landscapes of South Africa. Fully reproduced sketches coupled with narrative text and extensive background material place these unique illustrations in their historical and geographical context.

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Brian Warner is the vice president of the International Astronomical Union. He is the author of 10 books and the recipient of numerous scientific awards, including the Herschel Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of South Africa, and the Gold Medal for Science and Society, awarded by the Academy of Science of South Africa.

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Imagining the City Memories and Cultures in Cape Town Sean Field, Renate Meyer, Felicity Swanson

"The overriding strength of this book is that it places people-ordinary people-at the centre of memory, at the centre of historical and contemporary experience, and thus at the centre of reimagining and owning the city of Cape Town. It is as they speak-what they choose to say, what they choose to remain silent about-that we become aware of the possibilities of the city, if it really did embrace all its people, in all of their diversity." -Mike van Graan, from the foreword Cities are not only made of buildings and roads, but they are also constructed through popular imagination and memory as evidenced in this collection of oral and visual histories drawn from the people who live, work, and creatively express themselves in Cape Town, South Africa. The collected works move beyond apartheid history to analyze the reflective ways in which people are coming to terms with that history through memory work, performance, and memorialization.

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Sean Field is the director of the Centre for Popular Memory in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. Renate Meyer is a researcher and an archival officer with the Centre for Popular Memory at the University of Cape Town. Felicity Swanson is a former training coordinator at the Centre for Popular Memory at the University of Cape Town.

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Representation & Reality Portraits of Women's Lives in the Western Cape 1948-1976 Helen Scanlon

Drawing on the personal narratives of women from across the political spectrum in the Western Cape, this book presents an unusual perspective on the recent history of South African women. Highlighting the experiences of individuals, this collection confronts the anonymity that shrouds so many women activists and provides a clear perspective on the motivations of women who chose political activism in the 1950s and 1960s. The women's narratives provide nuanced insights into the ways that issues of identity, race, class, and culture intersected with politics in their lives, and demonstrate the sometimes painful intersections of the public and personal realms.

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Helen Scanlon is a senior researcher for the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cape Town. She

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has published a number of scholarly articles on gender and history and is coeditor of A Dialogue of the Deaf:

Essays on Africa and the United Nations.


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Merlin Press 9780850366549 Pub Date: 11/1/11 $37.95 Trade Paperback


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Throwing Down White Man Cape Rule and Misrule in Colonial Lesotho, 1871-1884 Peter Sanders

Surrounded by South Africa lies the small, independent kingdom of Lesotho, and this book explores how the Basotho people came to preserve this autonomy from powerful neighbors in the Gun War of 1880-81. One of several wars in southern Africa at the time, the Gun War was different in one, all-important respect: the whites were humiliatingly defeated, or at least decisively held at bay. Presenting oral traditions and archival sources with meticulous care, this history lays bare the narrower interests and conflicting perspectives among the Basotho chiefs and the local officials as well as the larger forces at work in the region. Compelling and absorbing, this study of the Gun War will interest historians and academics alike.

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Author BioPeter Sanders is the former chief executive for the Commission for Racial Equality and the author of Medicine

Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis.




Johannesburg One City Colliding Worlds Lindsay Bremner

This intriguing study frames a view of the rapidly transforming city of Johannesburg and explores the new identities, bonds, and intimacies forming in the midst of, or in between, the new rigidities and spatial enclosures of the emerging city.

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Johannesburg Portraits From Lionel Phillips to Sibongile Khumalo Mike Alfred

Tells the story of Johannesburg's geography; its economic, political, and social history; and its vibrant personality through the lives of prominent Johannesburg citizens.

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Mike Alfred grew up and was educated in Johannesburg. He worked for large corporations before starting his own human resources consultancy. During the eighties and nineties he wrote and published the Manpower Brief, a human resources, industrial relations and socio-political newsletter, purchased by many leading South African companies. He is the author of four business books. Mike Alfred's poetry has been featured in many South African literary magazines and anthologies. His book of poems, Life in the Suburbs (Snail Press), was published in 1994. Mike has written features on Johannesburg for The Sunday Independent, The Star and most recently, Sunday Times Lifestyle and leads walking tours through the city. He and his wife reside in a house on Langermann's Kop in Kensington. They have a son and daughter who also live in Johannesburg and are proud grandparents to three young boys.

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Chicago Review Press 9781613748091 Pub Date: 4/1/13 $16.95/$18.95 Can. Trade Paperback


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First Kill Your Family Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army Peter Eichstaedt

"Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls. He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that has terrorized northern Uganda for twenty years. The memory racks Richard's slender body as he wipes away tears."

For more than twenty years, beginning in the mid-1980s, the Lord's Resistance Army has ravaged northern Uganda. Tens of thousands have been slaughtered, and thousands more mutilated and traumatized. At least 1.5 million people have been driven from a pastoral existence into the squalor of refugee camps.

The leader of the rebel army is the rarely seen Joseph Kony, a former witchdoctor and self-professed spirit medium who continues to evade justice and wield power from somewhere near the Congo~Sudan border. Kony claims he not only can predict the future but also can control the minds of his fighters. And control them he does: the Lord's Resistance Army co...

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Peter Eichstaedt is the Africa editor for the Institute of War and Peace Reporting in The Hague. A veteran journalist, he has worked in locations worldwide, including Slovenia, Moldova, Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, and

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Uganda, where he was a senior editor for Uganda Radio Network. He is the author of If You Poison Us: Uranium

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First Kill Your Family Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army Peter Eichstaedt

"Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls. He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that has terrorized northern Uganda for twenty years. The memory racks Richard's slender body as he wipes away tears."

For more than twenty years, beginning in the mid-1980s, the Lord's Resistance Army has ravaged northern Uganda. Tens of thousands have been slaughtered, and thousands more mutilated and traumatized. At least 1.5 million people have been driven from a pastoral existence into the squalor of refugee camps.

The leader of the rebel army is the rarely seen Joseph Kony, a former witchdoctor and self-professed spirit medium who continues to evade justice and wield power from somewhere near the Congo~Sudan border. Kony claims he not only can predict the future but also can control the minds of his fighters. And control them he does: the Lord's Resistance Army co...

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Peter Eichstaedt is the Africa editor for the Institute of War and Peace Reporting in The Hague. He is a veteran journalist who has reported from locations worldwide, including Slovenia, Moldova, Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia,

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and Uganda, and a former senior editor for Uganda Radio Network. He is the author of If You Poison Us: Uranium

and Native Americans.


70 pages Carton Qty: 32 History / Africa HIS047000 Series: Exploring Our National Days


Freedom Day 27 April Sahm Venter

An educational resource, this reference explains the importance of voting, the 300-year struggle for the vote in South Africa, and the role voting plays in keeping a democracy alive. This guidebook also analyzes the negotiations that brought apartheid to an end, focusing on April 27, 1994-the day all South Africans of legal age were allowed to vote-as a milestone in the present day South African political system.

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Author BioSahm Venter has worked in the media since 1981 and is the author of A Free Mind, Something to Write Home

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House of Stone The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe Christina Lamb

Blue mountains, golden fields, gin and tonics on the terrace--once it had seemed the most idyllic place on earth. But by August 2002, Marondera, in eastern Zimbabwe, had been turned into a bloody battleground, the center of a violent campaign. One bright morning, Nigel Hough, one of the few remaining white farmers, received the news he had been dreading. A crowd of war veterans was at his gates, demanding he hand over his homestead. The mob started a fire and dragged him to an outhouse. To his shock, the leader of the invaders was his family's much-loved nanny Aqui. "Get out or we'll kill you," she said. "There is no place for whites in this country."

Christina Lamb uncovered the astonishing saga she tells in House of Stone while traveling back and forth to report clandestinely on Zimbabwe. Her powerful narrative traces the history of the brutal civil war, independence, and the Mugabe years, all through the lives of two people on opposing sides. Although born within a few miles of each other, their experience growing up could not have been more different. While Nigel pla...

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Christina Lamb is a foreign affairs correspondent for the Sunday Times and the author of The Africa House, The Sewing Circles of Herat, and Waiting for Allah.

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Zimbabwe in Transition A View from Within Tim Murithi, Aquilina Mawadza

Informative and up-to-date, this comprehensive study is written by Zimbabweans about Zimbabwe. It discusses the contemporary issues affecting Zimbabwe citizens and critically examines both the historical and contemporary dynamics shaping political and economic developments in the country, taking into account voices from a broad spectrum of Zimbabwean society-including civil society, faith-based communities, the diaspora, women, community leaders, the media, youth, and regional actors such as Southern African Development Community and the African Union. Providing insights into the role of ordinary people achieving a more stable future, this book will interest academics, policymakers, and civil-society practitioners alike.

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Tim Murithi is head of the Justice and Reconciliation in Africa Program at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town and a research fellow with the department for political sciences at the University of

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Pretoria in South Africa. He is the author of the The African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding and

Development. Aquilina Mawadza is a researcher and an academic. She is the project leader of the Southern Africa desk at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town.


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PM Press 9781604860955 Pub Date: 10/25/12 $16.95/$18.95 Can. Trade Paperback

160 pages Carton Qty: 60 History / Africa HIS001000 Series: The Charles H. Kerr Library

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A History of Pan-African Revolt C. L. R. James, Robin D. G. Kelley

Originally published in England in 1938 and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global Black resistance. This concise, accessible history of revolts by African peoples worldwide explores the wide range of methods used by Africans to resist oppression and the negative effects of imperialism and colonization as viewed in the 20th century. Written from a radical perspective with a substantial new introduction that contextualizes the work in the ferment of the times, A History of Pan-African Revolt is essential to understanding liberation movements in Africa and the diaspora and continues to reveal new insights, lessons, and visions to successive generations.

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C. L. R. James was a major figure in Pan-Africanism and the author of a wide array of fiction and nonfiction,

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including Beyond a Boundary, The Black Jacobins, Every Cook Can Govern, The Invading Socialist Society, A

Majestic Innings: Writings on Cricket, and The Nobbie Stories for Children and Adults. Robin D. G. Kelley is a professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is a coeditor of Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora and the author of Freedom Dreams:

The Black Radical Imagination and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, which received several honors, including Best Book on Jazz from the Jazz Journalists Association and the Ambassador Award for Book of Special Distinction from the English Speaking Union. It was also a finalist for a PEN USA Literary Award. He lives in Los Angeles.

Wits University Press 9781868144181 Pub Date: 1/1/07 $49.95/$54.95 Can. Discount Code: SHO Trade Paperback



A Search for Origins Science, History and South Africa's 'Cradle of Humankind' Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen, Trefor Jenkins,...

The "Cradle of Humankind" (COH), bordering Gauteng and the North-West Province, was declared a World Heritage Site for the wealth of the human and animal fossils found there. Research based on fossils found in the area as well as signs of early human habitation have shed new light on the evolution of humankind and on the significant role that southern Africa played in the development of modern humans.

A Search for Origins aims to provide an overview of the history of the COH, and of the important discoveries that have been made there, for a non-specialist audience. A number of general accounts have been written which have concentrated on the palaeontological discoveries made there. No systematic account written by specialists in their disciplines has, however, been published about the wider history of the COH and surrounding areas. In particular, no overview spanning the evolution of early plant and animal life, human development and recent and colonial history as reflected in discoveries linked to the COH, has been attempted.

This edited volume frames the scientific advances that ha...

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Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins are all academics based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Bonner is a historian, Esterhuysen an archaeologist and Jenkins is a geneticist.

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Oldcastle Books 9781842434420 Pub Date: 6/1/12 $14.95 Trade Paperback

160 pages Carton Qty: 50 History / Africa HIS001000 Series: Short History


A Short History of Africa From the Origins of the Human Race to the Arab Spring Gordon Kerr

A comprehensive introduction to the sprawling history of this enormous continent, from the dawn of human time in prehistoric Africa right through to Arab Spring Beginning with the origins of the human race and the development of stone age technology, this history of the cradle of civilization moves through ancient and medieval times, the significance of the Arab presence, the Muslim states, and the trans-Saharan trade. It continues with the rise and fall of nation states and kingdoms prior to the arrival of Europeans, Ghana, the Kingdoms of the Forest and Savanna, Yoruba, Oyo, Benin, Asante, Luba, Lunda, Lozil, and many others, on to the beginning of the slave trade, and the European conquest and colonization of sub-Saharan Africa, the "Scramble for Africa." Finally moving onto the often bitter struggles for independence from that period of colonization and exploitation, it concludes with an assessment of Africa in the 21st century.

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Gordon Kerr is a writer and editor who has worked in bookselling, publishing, and journalism. His titles include Goners, Houses of Death, A Short History of Europe, and Timeline History of the World.

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Pambazuka Press 9780857490216 Pub Date: 12/1/11 $29.95 Trade Paperback


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African Awakening The Emerging Revolutions Sokari Ekine, Firoze Manji

An insightful and comprehensive compilation of the year's events, this record offers in-the-moment comment and analysis as well as informed reflection on the 2011 African uprisings. While the tumultuous uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have seized the attention of media analysts, the concurrent rebellions in Benin, Gabon, Senegal, Swaziland, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda, and in other parts of the African continent have gone virtually unnoticed. Arguing that these disturbances are the result of decades of declining living standards, mass unemployment, land dispossessions, and impoverishment of the majority, this account provides an overview of the struggle for democratization, which constitutes a reawakening of the spirit of freedom and justice for all.

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Author BioSokari Ekine is an activist and the writer of the award-winning blog, Black Looks. She is the author of Grace,

Tenacity and Eloquence: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Africa and SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa. Firoze Manji is the founder and former executive director of Fahamu and the editor of Pambazuka News. He is also the former program director for the International Secretariat of Amnesty International and the former CEO for the Aga Khan Foundation UK. He is the author of African Voices on Development and Social Justice and China's New Role in Africa and the South: A Search for a New Perspective.


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Ah Big Yaws? (6th Edition) A Guard to Sow Theffricun Innglissh Robin Malan

First published in 1972, this lighthearted linguistic study of South African spoken English became a well-loved book among South Africans at home and abroad. Unique and humorous, the book was actually adopted by the BBC drama department as a reference for voice coaches when a white, urban, English-speaking South African accent was required. It is available again for a new generation of language lovers.

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Author BioRobin Malan is an editor of South African textbook anthologies and the author of Rebel Angel, The Sound of New

Wings, and The Southern African Impossible Book Quiz Book!

Spinifex Press 9781875559428 Pub Date: 10/28/95 $12.95/$17.95 Can. Trade Paperback



Another Year in Africa Rose Zwi

They came from the stetl to a new land, to a new life. Another year in Africa, they said, another year in exile. The old world of pogroms is challenged by their new lives in Africa and the child Ruth is haunted by memories of tragedy and persecution that are not even hers.

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Black Africa The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State Cheikh Anta Diop

This expanded edition continues Diop's campaign for the political and economic unification of the nations of black Africa. It concludes with a lengthy interview with Diop.

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Author BioCheikh Anta Diop is the author of The African Origin of Civilization, Civilization or Barbarism, and Precolonial

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Bush War The Road to Cuito Cuanavale Gennady Shubin, Andrei Tokarev

For almost 15 years, South Africa was involved in a civil war in Angola: the so-called Bush War on behalf of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola faction. The climax of the conflict portrayed in this history was the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, the largest military engagement on African soil since World War II. This book provides the firsthand, personal accounts of the clash leading up to Cuito Cuanavale for the first time in English, as told by the Soviet advisers to the Angolan army. Their experiences of the war as well as their views and assessment of their South African enemies and Cuban and Angolan allies will not only surprise and fascinate readers, but will also offer new insights into the war itself.

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Gennady Shubin is a senior researcher for the Institute for African Studies in the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He is the author or coauthor of 17 books. Andrei Tokarev is the head of the Center for South African Studies at the Africa Institute in Moscow and an associate professor at the Military University in Moscow.

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Consuming the Congo War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place Peter Eichstaedt

Every time you use a cell phone or log on to a computer, you could be contributing to the death toll in the bloodiest, most violent region in the world: the eastern Congo. Rich in "conflict minerals"--valuable resources mined in the midst of armed conflict and egregious human rights abuses--this remote and lawless land is home to deposits of gold and diamonds as well as coltan, tin, and tungsten, all critical to cell phones, computers, and other popular electronics.

In Consuming the Congo, veteran journalist and author Peter Eichstaedt goes into these killing fields to find what is behind the bloodshed, hearing the stories of those who live this nightmarish reality. He talks with survivors of villages decimated by war and miners slogging knee-deep in muck, desperately digging up the gold, tin, and coltan on which Western culture depends. While these men work with picks, shovels, and iron bars, marauding militias and renegade army units who control the mines roam the jungles, killing and raping with impunity, taking their profits, and leaving villagers to a life of grueling manual la...

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Peter Eichstaedt is a veteran journalist and author dedicated revealing the stories behind human rights abuses. Formerly senior editor for Uganda Radio Network and Africa editor for the Institute of War and Peace in Reporting in The Hague, Eichstaedt traveled extensively in Africa to cover war crimes and trials. He won the 2010 Colorado

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Book Award for history for his book First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance

Army and is the author of If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans and Pirate State: Inside Somalia's

Terrorism at Sea. He makes his home base near Denver, Colorado, and is currently on assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan.




Cyril Ramaphosa Anthony Butler

The extraordinary rise of one of South Africa's most celebrated political leaders and his contributions to the country's liberation movement are thoroughly chronicled in this insightful account. From his humble beginnings in turbulent Johannesburg to his appointment as general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, this biography offers a frank appraisal of Ramaphosa's achievements and limitations.

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Anthony Butler is a professor of public policy at the University of Cape Town and a columnist for Business Day. He is a former fellow of Emmanuel College-Cambridge and a former director of the policy and administration program at the University of London-Birkbeck.

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Decolonization and Empire Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond John S. Saul

Approaching the subjects of empire and colonization in a new light, this survey states that the free global market and institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization are actually recolonizing Southern Africa. This polemic argues that the unalloyed working of capitalism-the manufacture and exacerbation of a hierarchy that enlarges the gap between the rich and the poor-is self-creating and self-sustaining. It is also locked into place by governments and their institutions, leaving no space for an alternative structure. Those increasingly unable to defend themselves against the free global market have been recolonized into this capitalist system.

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Author BioJohn S. Saul is professor emeritus at York University and the author of Development After Globalization: Theory

and Practice for the Embattled South in a New Imperial Age. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.




Development and Dreams The Urban Legacy of the 2010 Football World Cup Orli Bass, Udesh Pillay, Richard Tomlinson

Embracing the effects of South Africa hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup, this study seeks to understand the greatest potential benefit of the 2010 World Cup-a repudiation of Afropessimism and an assertion of a contemporary African identity both at home and on a global stage. Penned by both academics and practitioners, this guide provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the probable consequences of the World Cup for the economy of South Africa and its cities, from infrastructure development to the projection of African culture and identity. Attention is given to a range of topics including the management, costs, and benefits associated with the 2010 World Cup; the uncertain economic and employment benefits; venue selection; and investment in infrastructure, tourism, and fan parks. The examination also explores the dreams and aspirations associated with the 2010 World Cup and what it means to talk about an African Cup, African culture, and identity. This volume is an invaluable companion to policymakers, planners, and students as South Africa prepares to host the world's largest spo...

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Udesh Pillay is the executive director of the Centre for Service Delivery at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in South Africa. He holds a PhD in Geography, and prior to joining the HSRC, he was head of the delimitation and planning directorate of the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa. Richard Tomlinson is a visiting professor at the school of architecture and planning of the University of the Witwatersrand, and he is a consultant in urban development and project management. Orli Bass is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Service Delivery at the HSRC. Her areas of research interest include the relationships between cities and culture, representations of Africa and its cities, and megaevents and cities.

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Education in Exile SOMAFCO, the African National Congress School in Tanzania, 1978-1992 Sean Morrow, Brown Maaba, Loyiso Pulumani

Charting the debates and difficulties surrounding the formation of the unique and self-reliant Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO), this study examines the curricula, philosophies, and experiences at this controversial institute. Describing student life, campus organizations, and political activities, the detailed research also follows the often-traumatized state of the exiled pupils.

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Seán Morrow is the chief research specialist in the Human Sciences Research Council's Democracy and Governance Program. Brown Maaba is a research manager at the Steve Biko Foundation and a research associate of the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. Loyiso Pulumani is an oral history coordinator at the African National Congress Archives unit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Ekurhuleni The Making of an Urban Region Philip Bonner, Noor Nieftagodien, Sello Mathabatha

Ekurhuleni: The Making of an Urban Region is the first academic work to provide an historical account and explanation of the development of this extended region to the east of Johannesburg since its origins at the end of the 19th century. From the time of the discovery of gold and coal until the turn of the 21st century, the region comprised a number of distinctive towns, all with their own histories. In 2000, these towns were amalgamated into a single metropolitan area, but, unlike its counterparts across the country, it does not cohere around a single identity. Drawing on a significant body of academic work as well as original research by the authors, the book traces and examines some of the salient historical strands that constituted what was known as the East Rand and suggests that, notwithstanding important differences between towns and the racial fragmentation generated by apartheid, the region's history contains significant common features. Arguably, its centrality as a major mining area and then as the country's engineering heartland gave Ekurhuleni an overarching distinctive...

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Philip Bonner is a professor of history at the University of the Witwatersrand and holds the NRF Chair in Local Histories and Present Realities. He was historical consultant and executive producer to the six-part documentary television series Soweto: A History, and the coauthor of the book of the same title. He was cocurator of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. Noor Nieftagodien serves as the deputy chair of the History Workshop and is a senior lecturer in the history department at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He is the coauthor of Orlando West, Soweto. They are the coauthors of Alexandra: A History. Sello Mathabatha is the author of The Struggle over Education in Northern Transvaal.

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276 pages Carton Qty: 40 History / Africa HIS001030 Series: Revolutionary History

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European Revolutionaries and Algerian Independence 1954-1962 Ian Birchall

With the summer of 2012 marking half a century of independence for Algeria, the Algerian War has been brought into discussions in France once more, where parallels between the past and present are revealed. This analysis takes an in-depth look at the war from 1954 to 1962 and the response from the French left. Drawing from documents and interviews, it offers a full account of not only the role of the revolutionary left in giving political and practical solidarity to the Algerian liberation struggle, but also that of the Trotskyists during that period. Including a section on how the war has been reflected in fiction, this volume is sure to interest academics across various fields.

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Ian Birchall is an independent socialist writer and translator, a lifelong member of the Socialist Workers Party, and a member of the Editorial Board of Revolutionary History. He is also a member of the London Socialist Historians Group, a frequent contributor to Historical Materialism, and the author of Tony Cliff.

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Even the Cows Were Amazed Shipwreck Survivors in South-east Africa, 1552?1782 Gillian Vernon

Between the 16th and 18th centuries a number of European ships involved in trade with the East came to grief on the southeast African coast, but in almost all cases there were survivors, both passengers and crew, whose stories were later recounted and written down. This book tells the stories of the survivors' experiences and examines why some parties managed to survive much better than others. Many parties undertook epic journeys on foot from the wreck site to reach places where they might be rescued. The survivors of Portuguese vessels headed north towards present-day Mozambique, where it was known that Portuguese trading vessels occasionally made anchor. The Dutch and the British, on the other hand, headed west toward the Cape. These hazardous journeys involved great feats of endurance for the survivors, who tramped by foot for hundreds of kilometers through unknown territory and met (and bartered with) local people along the way whom common stereotypes of the time demonized as hostile savages. Even more remarkably, a few parties of survivors constructed their own small ships from...

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Spinifex Press 9781876756260 Pub Date: 8/1/02 $24.95/$33.95 Can. Trade Paperback



Face to Face Judi Fisher, Beth Shelton

Six years ago the Preston Creative Living Centre, a small community agency in the diverse northern suburbs of Melbourne, embarked upon a risky but exciting venture. It marshalled resources for people to engage in artistic and community processes together and became a performance venue for a series of vital and engaging performances. Over this time the space has become alive, filled with people and activity. This book is about the partnerships between organisations, artists, and communities for community artmaking. It is the story of one organization's experience with community performance-making, from the philosophy that informs choices, to the nitty-gritty of work.

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From Citizen to Refugee (2nd Edition) Uganda Asians Come to Britain Mahmood Mamdani

In a gripping personal account of the Asians' last days in Uganda following their expulsion by Idi Amin in 1972, this book interweaves an examination of the country's colonial history with the subsequent evolution of postindependence politics. Expelled from Uganda and arriving in a cold and overcast London, Mahmood Mamdani shares his experiences in a camp run by the UK government's resettlement board and explores the theme of political identity-the politicization of racial identity and its reproduction after independence. A telling and gripping story that will be familiar to refugees and those seeking asylum in Britain, this vivid autobiography is as pertinent today as when it was first published in 1973.

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Mahmood Mamdani is the director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University in Author Bio

Uganda and the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University. He is the author of Good

Muslim, Bad Muslim and Saviors and Survivors. He lives in New York City.


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Genocide in German South-West Africa The Colonial War of 1904-1908 and Its Aftermath Jurgen Zimmerer, Joachim Zeller, E. J. Neather

The 1904 war that broke out in present day Namibia after the Herero tribe rose against an oppressive colonial regime-and the German army's brutal suppression of that uprising-are the focus of this collection of essays. Exploring the annihilation of both the Herero and Nama people, this selection from prominent researchers of German imperialism considers many aspects of the war and shows how racism, concentration camps, and genocide in the German colony foreshadow Hitler's Third Reich war crimes.

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Jürgen Zimmerer teaches history at the Center for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Joachim Zeller teaches at the Technical University in Berlin. E. J. Neather is the author of

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Mastering German 2, Previsions, and Realisations.



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Governing Cities in Africa Politics and Policies Simon Bekker, Laurent Fourchard

Rather than grouping African nations by Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone historical influences as many books do, this study employs a novel approach in discussing them: thematic instead of single-city chapters. The book argues that cities in sub-Saharan Africa provide the pivot around which issues of policy, practice, planning, and service delivery turn, at different scales and from the top down as well as from the bottom up. Each chapter is written by multiple authors, each of whom displays a depth of knowledge of one of three or more cities treated in each case. Party politics, for example, is examined at city level while urban security is demonstrated within both state and nonstate contexts. This account will interest scholars of African and urban studies in addition to urban policymakers and practitioners.

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Simon Bekker is a professor emeritus in sociology at the University of Stellenbosch, a former professor of development studies at Rhodes University, and the former director of the Center for Social and Development

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Studies at the University of Natal. He is the coeditor of Capital Cities in Africa; Identity? Theory, Politics,

History; Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities; and Shifting African Identities. Laurent Fourchard is a senior researcher for the National Foundation of Political Science at the Centre d'Étude d'Afrique Noire at the University of Bordeaux. He is coeditor of the journal Politique africaine and has had papers published in Africa journal, History Compass online journal, and the Journal of African History.


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Great Lives: Pivotal Moments Paul Holden, Lauren Segal

Starkly revealing the deep and demoralizing impact segregation and apartheid had on the identity of South Africa's citizens, this extraordinary pictorial of the Sunday Times celebrates the fearless news makers and pivotal events of the country's last 100 years. Presenting an exciting sweep of South African history and honoring the instrumental events and figures of the country's rich heritage-such as Olive Schreiner's fight for women's rights and Archbishop Desmond Tutu's leadership of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission-this intimate portraiture is a stunning tribute to South Africa's divided past. Enriched by archival treasures and images previously unavailable to the public, this beautifully compiled and invaluable documentation demonstrates the individual and collective spirit of courage and resistance that characterized much of the struggle for democracy in a uniquely troubled country.

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Lauren Segal is an author, a curator, a heritage consultant, and a producer. Paul Holden is an author, a historian, and a researcher.

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Hlanganani Basebenzi A Brief History of COSATU William Matlala, Zwelinzima Vavi

Twenty years ago in Durban, on December 1, 1985, a giant was born: the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Today the federation has become the standard-bearer for South Africa's workers, and this volume recalls its history, reassess its ideas, and reaffirms the group's commitment to defending the working class.

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India in Africa Changing Geographies of Power Emma Mawdsley, Gerard McCann

In one of the first analyses of contemporary Indian-African relations, this detailed book draws upon a collection of case studies that explore interrelated topics such as trade, investment, development aid, civil society relations, security, and geopolitics. While China's relationship to Africa has been thoroughly examined, knowledge and analysis of India's role in Africa has until now been limited. This book fills the gap and compares and contrasts India to China's role as a rising global power in the African continent.

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Emma Mawdsley is a senior lecturer in geography at Cambridge University and a fellow at Newnham College. She has written on critical development politics, including accounts of knowledge and power in transnational NGO networks, environmental issues, and politics in India. Gerard McCann is a lecturer in modern history at the University of York and a former fellow in transnational history at Oxford University.

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La Verité aux puissants Une Sélection de cartes postales panafricaines Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem

The untimely death of Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem in 2009 on African Liberation Day stunned the Pan-African world. This lively selection of his weekly Pan-African Postcards demonstrates the brilliant wordsmith he was and his steadfast commitment to Pan-Africanism and offers a legacy of political, social, and cultural thought from his determination to speak truth to power. Showcasing the author's exceptional ability to express complex ideas in an engaging manner, this book presents his philosophy on diverse but intersecting themes: his fundamental respect for the capabilities, potential, and contribution of women in transforming Africa; penetrating truths directed at African politicians and their conduct; and deliberations on the institutional progress towards African Union. He reflects on culture and emphasizes the commonalities of African people. Also represented are his denunciations of international financial institutions, the G8 and NGOs in Africa, with incisive analysis of imperialism's manifestations and impact on the lives of African people, and his passion for eliminating pover...

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Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem was the coordinator for the Africa Research and Information Bureau, the founding editor of Africa World Review, the cofounder and executive director of Justice Africa, and the chair of the Centre for Democracy and Development and of the Pan-African Development Education and Advocacy Program in Uganda.

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Libya The History of Gaddafi's Pariah State John Oakes This fascinating history-updated through Gaddafi's death-explores how Libya evolved from Ottoman province to international pariah to seething cauldron of rebellion.

How Libya evolved from Ottoman province to international pariah to seething cauldron of rebellion under Gaddafi, up to date with information on Gaddafi's death

Tracing Libya's colorful history, this book details the events which shaped Gaddafi's personality, the influences which molded his career, the security apparatus which kept him in power, and the human rights violations he committed. When the oil-rich Kingdom of Libya descended into corruption and irresolution, a young Libyan army officer named Muammar Gaddafi seized power in a coup on September 1, 1969. Under his rule Libya became a pariah state, harboring terrorists from nearly every dissident group in the world and accumulating an enormous arsenal of lethal weaponry. The late Gaddafi was autocratic and cruel, and his people finally rose up against him in February 2011-but how did he survive for so long? This history is a story of Roman legions, Barbary pirates, slave traders, camel caravans, and Ottoman Beys; of Italian colonists, Bedouin tribes, Texan oil barons, the Lockerbie disaster, and mass murder in the Abu Salim ja...

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John Oakes served in the Royal Air Force before becoming a teacher. He lived and worked in Libya for eight years before the 1969 revolution.

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Mapungubwe Thomas N. Huffman

Between AD 900 and 1300, the Shashe-Limpopo basin in Limpopo Province witnessed the development of an ancient civilization. Like civilizations everywhere, it consisted of a complex social organization supported by intensive agriculture and long-distance trade. The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, as it is now known, was the forerunner of the famous town of Great Zimbabwe, situated about 200 kilometers to the north, and its cultural connection to Great Zimbabwe and the Venda people allows archaeologists to reconstruct its evolution. This generously illustrated book tells the story of an African civilization that began more than 1000 years ago. It is the first in a series of accessible books written by specialists for visitors to South Africa’s World Heritage Sites.

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Thomas N. Huffmann is head of archaeology in the School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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Mining the Future The Bafokeng Story Totem Media for the Research and Planning Departm...

A portrait of visionary leadership, this study of the Bafokeng people describes how they acquired their land and protected their customs during 150 years of political upheaval in South Africa. In addition, the book provides a look at the current state of affairs in Royal Bafokeng Nation: the community has plenty of wealth from platinum-and it is the only rural community ever to host world cup soccer in the history of FIFA. Fully illustrated, book introduces the Bafokeng community, both past and present, as well as those who played a major role in shaping Bafokeng society, including Paul Kruger, Hans Merensky, and Christoph Penzhorn from the German Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission.

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Totem Media for the Research and Planning Department of the Royal Bafokeng is a town planning unit charged with service delivery and monitoring within the Nation to ensure that infrastructure and services are in line with the community's long-term vision.

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Permanent Removal Who Killed the Cradick Four? Christopher Nicholson

Goniwe, Calata, Mkonto and Mhlauli--the "Cradock Four"--were key leadership figures in the Eastern Cape region in the 1980s, and their murders are often regarded as the beginnings of revolution in South Africa. Yet despite widespread suspicion of police or defense force involvement in the deaths, the 1989 inquest found "no acceptable evidence that any member of the Force had anything whatsoever to do with the killings." From 1989 and after, former foot soldiers of the apartheid government started exposing the counter-revolutionary tactics authorized by highest levels within government. In 1992 ex-Commandant Lourens du Plessis leaked a highly sensitive document to the press. Dated 7 June 1985 and addressed to General van Rensburg, a member of the State Security Council, it proposed the "permanent removal from society" of Goniwe and Calata. On 8 May 1992 President FW de Klerk reopened the inquest. This is the fascinating story of the search for the people ultimately responsible for the deaths of the Cradock Four. Written in the style of a thriller but based on factual documentation a...

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Christopher Nicholson was the first director of the Durban branch of the Legal Resources Centre and is now a judge.

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Precolonial Black Africa Cheikh Anta Diop, Harold Salemson

This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of

modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.

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Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and scholar of Afrocentricity.

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Reclaiming African History Jacques Depelchin

The thought-provoking essays in this volume show that it is possible to reconnect the histories of those who

have been disconnected in Africa: shack dwellers, the poor, and the dispossessed. This analysis of African

history demonstrates how people have been forced into looking at their own histories through a shattered mirror,

deliberately and forcefully crushed so as to render the exercise impossible, and argues that history could be

written in a way that would help break the mold and free it from being a hostage, consciously and unconsciously,

to European and U.S. historical intellectual frameworks. It enables a reconnection to humanity-not just for the

sake of Africa, but for the sake of those who did everything to bury African history.

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Jacques Depelchin is an intellectual, academic, and activist for peace, democracy, transparency, and pro-

people politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has taught African history at universities in Congo,

Mozambique, Tanzania, and the United States. He was in the Eastern Congo during the 1996-2002 war and

participated in cease-fire negotiations.

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Richmond Living in the Shadow of Death

Andrew Ragavaloo

A true story, this gripping narrative reads like a political thriller as it describes one South African town's year of

terror in the early days of the new post-apartheid government. Sifiso Nkabinde, the regional leader of the African

National Congress (ANC) in the town of Richmond, KwaZulu Natal, is expelled for being a police spy. A self-

proclaimed warlord during the conflict in the area in the early 1990s, he reverts to violent activities following his

expulsion and is believed by the townspeople to be responsible for inciting a small-scale civil war in Richmond

that leaves more than 100 people dead over the course of a year. The mayor of the town, who is the author of

this account, stands firmly in charge even as he is under constant threat by Nkabinde's henchmen. This deeply

moving account stands as a testament to the importance and fragility of democracy.

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Andrew Ragavaloo is a former student activist and ANC member who was serving in 1997 as the mayor of

Richmond, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, when post election riots broke out. He was widely praised for his peace

efforts in that crisis and now serves as the speaker of the Richmond Council and the principal of Richmond

Combined School.

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Sanctuary How an Inner-City Church Spilled Onto a Sidewalk

Christa Kuljian

This striking account tells the story of how the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg and its

controversial Bishop Paul Verryn came to offer refuge to people who had nowhere else to turn. Xenophobic

violence erupted in South Africa in May 2008 and the threat of it spreading to Central Methodist Church became

very real-already there were over a thousand migrants living in the church, most of them having fled across the

Zimbabwe border in search of a life beyond poverty and political oppression. Every square inch was occupied.

Christa Kuljian fluently combines many elements to share this remarkable experience openly: interviews with

members of the refugee community, residents of the church, and key figures who include the head of Central

Methodist; historical material on the church and its role in the city since the early years; and an understanding

of urban dynamics, migrancy, and South African politics. Central Methodist became a visible reminder of the

challenges facing Johannesburg and South Africa-such as poverty, migration, xenophobia, and policing-and this

is the co...

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Christa Kuljian is a freelance writer and the recipient of the Ruth First Fellowship at the journalism program of

the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the former director of the C. S. Mott Foundation in South Africa, a

former visiting research fellow at the Johannesburg-based Centre for Policy Studies, a trustee of the Eugene

Saldanha Memorial Fund, and a senior fellow of Synergos. She has also served on several boards, including the

Southern Africa Grantmakers Association and the U.S.-South Africa Fulbright Commission.

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Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San Roger L. Hewitt

Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San analyzes texts drawn from the Bleek and

Lloyd Archive—arguably one of the most important collections for the understanding of South African cultural

heritage and in particular the traditions of the /Xam, South Africa’s "first people." Initially appearing in a now rare

1986 edition and here re-issued for the first time, the doctoral thesis on which the book is based became the

catalyst for much scholarly research. The book offers an analysis of the entire corpus of /Xam narratives found

in the Bleek and Lloyd collection, focusing particularly on the cycle of narratives concerning the

trickster /Kaggen (Mantis). These are examined on three levels from the "deep structures" with resonances in

other areas of /Xam culture and supernatural belief, through the recurring patterns of narrative composition

apparent across the cycle and finally touching on the observable differences in the performances by the

various /Xam collaborators. Hewitt’s text remains the only comprehensive and detailed study of /Xam narrative,

and i...

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Roger Hewitt is Professor of Sociology and Deputy Director at the Centre for Urban and Community Research,

Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.

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The African Origin of Civilization Myth or Reality

Cheikh Anta Diop, Mercer Cook

Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support

the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.

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Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and scholar of Afrocentricity.

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The Ancient Egyptians Rosalie David

This book traces the evolution of religious beliefs and practices within the historical and political contexts of the

main periods of Egypt's civilization. It shows how historical and political events influenced state cults, temple

rituals, and funerary practices and also emphasizes how religion permeated most aspects of everyday life,

including law, medicine, and education. Ancient Egyptians also describes how some religious customs have even

survived, in different forms, until the present day.

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Rosalie David is a reader in Egyptology at the University of Manchester and the keeper of Egyptology at the

Manchester University Museum. She lectures on ancient Egyptian religion and her research has included the

scientific investigation of Egyptian mummies and a study of Egyptian temple ritual. She is the author of more

than 20 books on Egyptology, including Egyptian Mummies and Modern Science.

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The First Ethiopians The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World

Malvern van Wyk Smith

The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece

and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. Malvern van Wyk

Smith was inspired by his curiosity regarding the origins of racism in southern Africa and consulted a wide range

of sources for this book. From rock art to classical travel writing; from the pre-dynastic African beginnings of

Egyptian and Nubian civilizations to Greek and Roman perceptions of Africa; from Khoisan cultural expressions to

early Christian conceptions of Africa and its people as demonic; from Aristotelian climatology to medieval

cartography; and from the geo-linguistic history of Africa to the most recent revelations regarding the genome

profile of the continent's peoples. The research led to a startling proposition: western racism has its roots in

Africa itself, notably in late New-Kingdom Egypt as its ruling elites sought to distance Egyptian civilization from

its African origins.

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Malvern van Wyk Smith is professor emeritus in the Department of English at Rhodes University, South Africa.

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The Forgotten Front The East African Campaign 1914-1918

Ross Anderson

The campaign combined heroic human endeavor and terrible suffering set in some of the most difficult terrain in

the world. The troops had to cope with extremes that ranged from arid deserts to tropical jungles to formidable

mountains and almost always on inadequate rations. Yet the East African Front has languished in undeserved

obscurity over the years with many people only vaguely aware of its course of events. - See more at:

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World War I began in East Africa in July, 1914, and did not end until November 13, 1918. In its scale and impact,

it was the largest conflict yet to take place on African soil. Four empires and their subject peoples were engaged

in a conflict that ranged from modern Kenya in the north to Mozambique in the south. The campaign combined

heroic human endeavor and terrible suffering set in some of the most difficult terrain in the world. The troops had

to cope with extremes that ranged from arid deserts to tropical jungles, to formidable mountains, and almost

always o...

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Ross Anderson has a PhD in History from the University of Glasgow, and spent 30 years in the British and

Canadian armies, becoming a Lieutenant-Colonel. He is the author of The Battle of Tanga 1914.

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446 pages Carton Qty: 32 History / Africa HIS001020 Series: Studies on Ibadism and Oman

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The Ibadis in the Region of the Indian Ocean Section One: East Africa

Heinz Gaube, Abdulrahman Al Salimi

In the early Middle Ages, members of Omani royal families and their followers began to emigrate to the coastal

regions of East Africa, with some of them founding small princedoms. After approximately 150 years of

Portuguese dominance, the Omanis drove the Portuguese out of the coastal areas north of Mozambique, and a

period of prosperity began under Omani rule. In a treaty signed in 1822 between the British and the Omani ruler,

Sayyid Said, the British ceded supremacy to the Omanis over the coastal areas of East Africa between northern

Mozambique and southern Somalia. This led to another period of prosperity under Omani rule, which ended in the

so called "Revolution of Zanzibar" in 1964. In this book the author presents a comprehensive survey of the

archaeological evidence of the Islamic period in the coastal areas of Kenya and Tanzania, and provides relevant

sources written in African, Oriental, and Western languages.

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The Ibadis in the Region of the Indian Ocean Section One: East Africa

Heinz Gaube, Abdulrahman Al Salimi

In the early Middle Ages, members of Omani royal families and their followers began to emigrate to the coastal

regions of East Africa, with some of them founding small princedoms. After approximately 150 years of

Portuguese dominance, the Omanis drove the Portuguese out of the coastal areas north of Mozambique, and a

period of prosperity began under Omani rule. In a treaty signed in 1822 between the British and the Omani ruler,

Sayyid Said, the British ceded supremacy to the Omanis over the coastal areas of East Africa between northern

Mozambique and southern Somalia. This led to another period of prosperity under Omani rule, which ended in the

so called "Revolution of Zanzibar" in 1964. In this book the author presents a comprehensive survey of the

archaeological evidence of the Islamic period in the coastal areas of Kenya and Tanzania, and provide relevant

sources written in African, Oriental, and Western languages.

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134 pages Carton Qty: 28 History / Africa HIS001000 Series: International IDEA Quota Reports series


The Implementation of Quotas African Experiences

This report examines women's political representation on the African continent, and shows how quotas have

contributed to increasing their access to political power. The documented evidence from Africa is very

encouraging: more than 20 countries on the continent either have legislated quotas or have political parties that

have adopted them voluntarily. This report details the different quota types that are being implemented in

different political contexts in 17 countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Morocco,

Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Summary

International IDEA is an intergovernmental organization that works to support electoral processes and

strengthen democracy. They have produced other publications on the topic of gender and political participation

including Women in Parliament.

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The Lusaka Years The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994

Hugh Macmillan

This is the extraordinary story of the ANC in exile in Zambia, where the organization had its headquarters for

most of the time after it was banned in South Africa. The book uses the ANC's own archives, the Zambian

archives, and oral sources, as well as the author's own participant observation, to provide a vivid account of this

crucial era in southern African history. It seeks to understand the sociology of the ANC in exile in Zambia and

argues that this was very different from its camp-based culture in Angola. It also examines the influence of the

ANC's exile experience on its approach to negotiations with the South African government and the transition from

apartheid. It concludes by arguing that the legacy and lessons of exile were not, as some observers suggest, so

much secrecy, paranoia, and a lack of internal democracy, as caution, moderation, and the avoidance of utopian

experiments or great leaps forward.

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Hugh Macmillan is a research associate at the African Studies Centre at Oxford University. He has taught at

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universities in Swaziland, Zambia, and South Africa and is the author of An African Trading Empire and Zion in

Africa.

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The Meanings of Timbuktu Shamil Jeppie, Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Contradicting the popular notion that African history survived only through the oral tradition, this collection of

essays examines the rich legacy of written history on the continent, specifically in Timbuktu. It brings together

articles written by a number of leading international scholars from Europe, the United States, and several African

countries, covering a wide range of areas in the study of Timbuktu, from archaeology and literature to the

intellectual life, libraries, and private collections in Timbuktu and West Africa.

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Shamil Jeppie is a senior lecturer in the department of historical studies at the University of Cape Town, a key

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advisor to the South Africa-Mali Timbuktu Manuscript Project, and the author of Language Identity Modernity:

The Arabic Study Circle of Durban. Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a professor in the department of philosophy

at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Cultural Question in Africa, as well as a French translation of

mathematician George Boole's Laws of Thought. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.


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The Mfecane Aftermath Carolyn Hamilton

Was the mfecane a figment of historians’ imagination as Julian Cobbing contends? How large a responsibility do

Shaka and the Zulu people bear for the social turbulence in South-central and South-east Africa in the early

decades of the 19th century? These are some of the issues explored in this collection, which is designed as a

response to the radical critique of Dr. Cobbing and other scholars. The mfecane, suggests Cobbing, must be seen

as a myth lying at the root of a set of interlinked assumptions and distortions that have seriously twisted our

understanding of the main historical processes of late 18th- and early 19th-century Southern Africa.

Contributors to this collection assess the implications of this critique for scholars from a range of disciplines,

notably history, anthropology, archaeology, history of art and African languages. But the book is not only about

the debate over Cobbing’s work; it is also an indicator of the state of current scholarship in Southern Africa in

the 18th and 19th centuries and, because it raises questions about the nature of sources and, indeed, ...

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Carolyn Hamilton is NRF Chair in Archive and Public Culture at the University of Cape Town.

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The People's Paper A Centenary History + Anthology of Abantu-Batho

Peter Limb

SummaryThis much-awaited volume uncovers the long-lost pages of the major African multi-lingual newspaper, Abantu-

Batho. Founded in 1912 by African National Congress (ANC) convener Pixley Seme, with assistance from the

Swazi Queen, the paper published until 1931, and this work shows how it attracted the cream of African

politicians; journalists; and poets Mqhayi, Nontsisi, and Grendon. Comprising both essays on and texts from the

paper, this book explores the complex movements and individuals that emerged as the essays contribute rich,

new material to provide clearer insights into South African politics and intellectual life. The People's Paper unveils

a judicious selection of never-before-published columns, spanning every year of its life and drawn from

repositories on three continents. Distinguished historians and literary scholars together with exciting young

scholars plumb the lives and ideas of editors, writers, readers and allied movements. Sharing the considerable

interest in the ANC centenary, this unique book will have a strong appeal and secure audience among all

interested in his...

Peter Limb is an associate professor and Africana bibliographer at Michigan State University. He has written

widely on South African history and his recent books include The ANC's Early Years, Grappling with the Beast,

and Nelson Mandela: A Biography. He lives in East Lansing, Michigan.

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Tracks in a Mountain Range Exploring the History of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg

John Wright, Aron Mazel

The declaration of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park as a World Heritage Site--on the basis of its scenic beauty,

high degree of biodiversity and the exceptional cultural value of its heritage of San rock art--provides an

occasion for reflecting on the history and people of the region, from the earliest known times to the present.

Constructed from archaeological and written sources, this book highlights the histories of the indigenous San

hunter-gatherers and black farmers, as well as of the European colonizers. The accessible text is complemented

by photographs of the landscape, rock art and archaeological finds. The authors have not aimed to write a

definitive history, but have tried to open up ways of looking at the region's past which go beyond the mainly

colonial' views which have predominated in the literature up to the present.

John Wright is a historian at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg (South Africa).

Aron Mazel is an archaeologist at the School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University (U.K.).

Summary

John Wright and Aron Mazel are both research associates of the Rock Art research Institute at the University of

the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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Umkhonto Wesizwe Janet Cherry

Informative and portable, this guide offers a brief yet lively introduction to the Umkhonto we Sizwe's (MK)

history; the MK was the armed wing of the African National Congress, which fought against the South African

apartheid government. Written by leading experts in their fields, it presents in broad outline the various stages in

MK's 30-year history, considers the difficult strategic and moral problems the army faced, and argues that its

operations are likely to be remembered as a just war conducted with considerable restraint. With personal

accounts from those who were active members of this armed group, this handbook also provides a critical

analysis of the South African liberation struggle.

Summary

Janet Cherry is a human rights activist, researcher, and academic who teaches at the Nelson Mandela

Metropolitan University. She has written and published on the history of the liberation struggle for the South

African Democratic Education Trust.

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Views on Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa Proceedings of an African Migration Alliance Workshop

Catherine Cross, Derik Gelderblom, Niel Roux, Jona...

Leading migration scholars examine the public priorities of sub-Saharan Africa and propose guidelines for future

migration policies in these research papers, compiled from the most recent African Migration Alliance international

workshop. Issues such as xenophobia, human trafficking, migrants' contributions to rural development, and

displacement are discussed in an effort to mobilize governments to prepare for a rising human tide.

Summary

Catherine Cross is a chief research specialist in the Urban, Rural and Economic Development (URED) research

program of the Human Sciences Research Council. Derik Gelderblom is an associate professor in the

department of sociology at the University of South Africa. Niel Roux is a research project manager in the

Population and Development Chief Directorate at the Department of Social Development, South Africa. Jonathan

Mafukidze is an assistant researcher in the URED research program of the HSRC.

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Voices of Liberation: Chris Hani Gregory Houston, James Ngculu

Chris Hani was a key figure in the South African liberation struggle, yet little has been written about this

enigmatic leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe. The

year 2013 marks the 20-year anniversary of his assassination, and HSRC Press views the publication of this book

as extremely important, not only to commemorate his death but to highlight the principles and values for which

he stood. As chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, Chris Hani was prepared to support the cessation of the

armed struggle in the interests of the negotiations that would benefit the country as a whole. He represents the

importance of dialogue and the relationship between identity, agency, citizenship, and social action.

Summary

Gregory Houston is a chief research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and holds a PhD

in political science from the University of Natal. James Ngculu joined Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) after the 1976

uprising of Soweto. He occupied a variety of posts within MK and spent most of his time abroad in exile, where

he became one of Chris Hani's closest companions. After 1994, he acted as the provincial secretary of the ANC

and as provincial chairperson of the Western Cape Province until 2008.

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224 pages Carton Qty: 50 History / Africa HIS047000 Series: Voices of Liberation

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Voices of Liberation: Steve Biko Derek Hook

Several books and accounts of Steve Biko have been published recently. So what sets this book apart? In

essence, the book offers fresh and accurate insights the political context, and an incisive account of the

struggle, hero, and icon, his philosophy, humanity, and purpose, uncluttered by meandering anecdote or

whimsical memory. It is a comprehensive collection of fascinating source texts in a single volume that help to

bring a new and important perspective.

Summary

Derek Hook is a reader in psychosocial studies at Birkbeck College, University of London and an extraordinary

professor of psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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Waging Peace in Sudan The Inside Story of the Negotiations That Ended Africa's Longest Civil War

Hilde F. Johnson

Providing a level of detail seldom achieved in works of contemporary African history and diplomacy, this account

shows, from a unique, insider's perspective, how the civil war in Sudan, which ultimately claimed 2 million deaths

and twice as many displaced, was finally brought to an end. By the late 1990s the international community had

largely judged the war insoluble and turned its attention elsewhere. Following the terrorist attacks of 11

September 2001, a peace process between the government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation

Movement and Army (SPLM/A) took hold. The talks were facilitated by IGAD under Kenyan leadership, and

supported by a 'Troika' of the United States, the UK, and Norway, whose intense engagement in the negotiations

was critical for reaching the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in January 2005. The agreement ended a 20-year-

old civil war pitting the indigenous Sudanese population against successive Arab Muslim regimes in Khartoum.

Although the cast of characters in this drama ranged from President George W. Bush and Secretary of State

Colin Powell to unname...

Summary

Hilde F. Johnson is a former Norwegian Development Minister who played a pivotal role in the achievement of

the Comprehensive Peace Agreement for Sudan in 2005. She is currently deputy executive director of UNICEF.

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72 pages Carton Qty: 32 History / Africa HIS001040 Series: Exploring Our National Days


Youth Day June 16

Sahm Venter

In honor of the 30th anniversary of June 16, 1976-now called Youth Day in South Africa-this book provides an

account of the events leading up to the Soweto uprising, which was ignited by police brutality toward students

protesting the compulsory teaching of half their subjects in Afrikaans. Thumbnail sketches of key leaders such as

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Tsietsie Mashinini, Sam Nzima, and Hector Pieterson are included, as well as a list of

documentary movies and other resources to widen the knowledge of young people about crucial aspects of

South Africa's struggle against apartheid.

Summary

Author BioSahm Venter is the editor of A Free Mind: Ahmed Kathrada's Notebook from Robben Island and Something to

Write Home About.


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