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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513972Author Guy EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Es'kia Mphahlele's seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa-available for the first time in Penguin ClassicsNominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es'kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864864871Author Roger WebsterPage Count 158Imprint David Philip PublishersPublisher New Africa Books (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

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...

Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson's remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby. Long after his presidency of South Africa,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956774538Author Deneys ReitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint The House of EmsliePublisher The House of EmslieWeight(grams) 500g

Everyone has an opinion about Winnie Mandela, and usually a strong one. She has been adored, feared and hates more than any other women in South African history. But few people know much about the life behind the headlines, myths and soundbites. This...

Funny and heartfelt, this amalgamation of memoir and essay collection tells the story of twenty months the author spent in Lesotho, the small, landlocked kingdom surrounded by South Africa. There he finds a spirit of joyful absurdity and resolve,...

We hear for the first time from internationalists who secretly worked for the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), in the struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid rule. They acted as couriers, provided safe houses in the neighbouring states...

In early 1900, the paths of three British writers-Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doyle-crossed in South Africa, during what's become known as Britain's last imperial war. Each of the three had pressing personal reasons to leave England...

Concentrating on parts of the exile history of the African National Congress (ANC) and the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) that both organizations would prefer to forget, these first-hand accounts describe the human rights abuses in...

This new edition of South Africa examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present, covering the economic background to racial segregation, the introduction of the oppressive policy of apartheid, the eventual collapse of White supremacy, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857063618Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 780g

The vertiginous decline in political leadership from Nelson Mandela to Jacob Zuma has engulfed South Africa in a serious crisis over the past `lost decade'. Based on his personal experience of the key protagonists, former British ambassador to South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512028Author Lindsay O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Social scientist Archie Mafeje, who was born in the Eastern Cape but lived most of his scholarly life in exile, was one of Africa's most prominent intellectuals. This ground-breaking book is the first to consider the entire body of Mafeje's oeuvre and...

Meticulous and finely crafted, this biography of Abram Fischer follows the South African lawyer's journey of conscience and personal transformation. Born into one of the most prominent Afrikaner nationalist families, Fischer nevertheless made his name as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797428973Author Pathisa NyathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint 'amabooksPublisher 'amabooksWeight(grams) 197g

An innovative examination of the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped twentieth-century South Africa. This book provides a stimulating introduction to the history of South Africa in the twentieth century. It draws on the rich and...

In 1878 southern Africa’s two most senior figures, army commander General Lord Chelmsford and the High Commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere created a false threat of a Zulu invasion of British Natal. In an astonishing act of over-confidence and without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848867611Author Roo ParkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Maverick Arts PublishingPublisher Maverick Arts PublishingWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm)...

This book analyses the causes of armed conflicts in Southern Africa during the Cold War. It examines the influence of the various external forces in the region during this period and their relationship to local movements and governments. The book...

Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country's colonial history is the dispossession of indigenous African societies by white settlers, and current calls for land restitution...

'Africa is a lost cause.' This is a cynical view held widely in the West, in much of the world and even in Africa. Many people in the old European colonial powers - and not only the dwindling band of 'old Africa hands' who served in the colonies - are in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724469Author Elizabeth Marshall ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Cambridge University is famed for the resourcefulness and innovation of its students. However, not all the undergraduates have devoted their talents to academia; instead they spent their time devising ingenious and hilarious pranks to play on the...

On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe from white-ruled Rhodesia, was killed by a car bomb. Since then, there have been four confessions and at least as many...

Father Patrick Noonan's book is a meticulously written and moving account of the events in and around the Vaal Triangle, leading up to the downfall of apartheid. Noonan's clear and unbiased historical record clarifies many misconceptions regarding these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644872581Author Alicia KlepeisFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864863867Author Nigel PennPage Count 195Imprint David Philip PublishersPublisher New Africa Books (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 136mm...

The true story of a love which defied family, Apartheid, and empire - the inspiration for the major new feature film A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike London, 1947. He was the heir to an African kingdom. She was a white...

In Serowe:Village of the Rain Wind, Bessie Head blends her skills as a novelist with the actual words of nearly one hundred inhabitants of a Botswanan village called Serowe to present a clear picture of the village community and its history. Serowe is...

In his annual presidential address on 8 January 1986, ANC president Oliver Tambo called on South Africans to make apartheid ungovernable through armed action and militant struggle. But unknown to the world, on that very day, the quiet-spoken mathematics...

Since 1994, South Africa has had five presidents who have varied greatly in style and character, despite all coming from the same political party. How do they compare? How did they handle the crises they faced? What effect did they have on the country? ...

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate more than thirty years of human rights violations under apartheid. Jillian Edelstein returned to her native South Africa to photograph the work of this committee and was present at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995362826Author Alan P LandauFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Alandau P/LPublisher Alandau P/LWeight(grams) 408g

Conspiracy to Murder is a gripping account of the Rwandan genocide, one of the most appalling events of the twentieth century. Linda Melvern's damning indictment of almost all the key figures and institutions involved amounts to a catalogue of failures...

Longman History Project provides excellent source and review material for both the Modern World History and the Schools History Project specifications. This highly illustrated and motivating series is suitable for each awarding body and is targeted at...