South Africa category: 561 books
by Theodore Burton
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Namibia Political History, and Constitutional Layout. Political Parties and Namibia Environment. A History Book on Namibia. In 1990, after a century of colonial rule, foreign domination and white racial supremacy, Namibia finally gained its long-sought political independence. With independence came...
Lion Songs
Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The trajectory of his career—from...
Zulu War VCs
Victoria Crosses of the Anglo-Zulu War 1879
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Anglo-Zulu War lasted only six months in 1879, but in that relatively short time twenty-three men were awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry under most trying and dangerous circumstances. Zulu warriors gave no mercy and expected none in return, yet half of the awards were given to men who went...
by Ernest Dunlop Swinton
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
The Defense of Duffer’s Drift is one of the most important works ever written on small unit tactics and is required reading for junior officers in military organizations around the world. It was written by Major General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton in 1904 when Swinton was a Captain. It details a fictional...
A Nervous State
Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular...
Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers
History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
In his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that history in the context of the regional resources and political culture of northern Ghana. Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers...
Steve Biko
Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Moving away from the domain of commemorative, iconicity, monumentalization, and memorialization, Sithole uses Steve Biko's meditations as a discursive intervention to understand black subjectivity. The epistemological shift of this book is not to be bogged down by the cataloging of events, something...
Eighty Years
Soldiering, Politics, Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Begun in 1914 and first published in 1927, these are the memoirs of General Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton, a British Army officer who served, in the Sudan, Ireland and most notably the Second Boer War. He draws upon his reminiscences with the aid of correspondence with various members of his family...
Sanctuary
How an Inner-City Church Spilled Onto a Sidewalk
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
by Athol Fugard
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
World premiere at Signature Theatre Company (Off-Broadway) at the Pershing Square Center in New York City the spring of 2015.
The original production was widely acclaimed by New York critics.
Inspired by the life of outsider artist Nukain Mabuzza.
As it centers on the historical...
by David Hilton-Barber
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
The concession to mine gold at Tati was granted to a British baronet,Sir John Swinburne, by Lobengula, last king of the Matabele. Althoughcalled by colonial imperialists as a “savage king” and a “native despot”,Lobengula was “exceedingly wellmade (in height about 6 ft 10 inches),corpulent,...
by David Hilton-Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This is book is a cameo of Len Hobson’s memories of growing up in the 1930s, the early days of farming in the Karoo, his youthful exploits, his exposure to the poverty of the poor whites at that time and his grief at losing his sibling and later, two of his wives. More than all his achievements...
by Lawrence Rupley, Lamissa Bangali, Boureima Diamitani
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Burkina Faso, known as Upper Volta until its independence from France in 1960, and locally called the “land of the upright people,” is a medium-sized land-locked country with no less than six neighbors, some of which periodically get into trouble… which makes it reasonably strategic in some...
Gendering the Settler State
White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous fusspots, whose lives were punctuated by a series of frivolous pastimes, or as casualties of patriarchy,...