Mohamed Adhikari: 3 books
Not White Enough, Not Black Enough
Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
The concept of Colouredness—being neither white nor black—has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The nature of Coloured identity and its heritage of oppression has always been a matter of intense political and ideological contestation.
Not...
The Anatomy of a South African Genocide
The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the ‡Khomani San who today live in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, lamented, “We have been made into nothing.” His comment applies equally to the fate of all the hunter-gatherer societies of the Cape Colony who were destroyed by the impact of European...
Burdened By Race
Coloured Identities in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Examines diverse manifestations of coloredness in southern Africa, with case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, to present analyses that challenge and overturn the conventional wisdom around colored identity.