Tom Lodge: 2 books
Sharpeville
An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start...
Mandela
A Critical Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. But what are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? And to what extent did Mandela self-consciously create the status of political hero that he now enjoys? This new and highly...