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Heidi Holland
[Paperback 2010]
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"The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe's clever yet brutal leader." -"The Economist" With plunging life expectancy, soaring inflation, and unemployment, repression, and starvation fueling a mass exodus, Zimbabwe is a nation in crisis. Its president, Robert Mugabe-once lauded for his heroics as a guerilla leader who fought against... more
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Christina Lamb
[Paperback 2000]
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Based on the extensive diaries and correspondence of Stewart Gore Browne, this portrait of a fascinating and complex colonialist is a masterpiece of biography and storytelling. In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country... more
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Catherine Cross ,
Derik Gelderblom ,
Niel Roux
[Paperback 2007]
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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 x... more
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J Leith
[Paperback 2006]
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While most of Africa has been described as a political and economic disaster zone, Botswana stands out as a democracy that has had rapid economic growth for more than three decades. Clark Leith traces the evolution of Botswana's economic policies and democratic political systems and the forces that have shaped... more
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Lance Van Sittert ,
Sandra Swart
[Paperback 2008]
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This suite of essays is a first for historical writing about southern Africa: they recover an animal's ubiquitous, yet hidden presence in human history. The authors have used the dog as a way "to think about human society." The dog is the connecting t... more
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Sakhela Buhlungu ,
John Daniel ,
Roger Southall
[Paperback 2007]
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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 collecti... more
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Michael Rice
[Hardcover 2005]
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During the twentieth century, popular opinion about the Boer War underwent a fascinating and telling metamorphosis From Dolly Gray to Sarie Marais gives recognition to a largely unacknowledged but substantial body of popular historical writing over a peri... more
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Hans Normann ,
Ina Snyman
[Paperback 1996]
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Miles Larmer
[Hardcover 2007]
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The received view of Zambia's mineworkers is of a reactionary body unable and unwilling to shape progressive politics in post-colonial Zambia. Miles Larmer seeks to use a whole range of little-used sources to dispel this myth. Extensive interviews with mi... more
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Sahm Venter
[Hardcover 2008]
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Designed as a teaching tool, this analysis looks back at the events that occurred on March 21, 1960, in South Africa. The day became known as the Sharpville Massacre--69 protestors were shot and killed. Now named Human Rights Day, it stands as an obse... more
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Sahm Venter
[Hardcover 2007]
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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 teachin... more
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Liz Stanley
[Hardbound 2006]
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Stephen P Rule ,
Terezinha Da Silva ,
Stephen Rule
[Paperback 2001]
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Francis B Nyamnjoh
[Paperback 2006]
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This study of xenophobia and how it both exploits and excludes is an incisive commentary on a globalizing world and its consequences for ordinary people's lives. Using the examples of Sub-Saharan Africa's two most economically successful nations, it metic This study of xenophobia and how it both exploits and excludes... more
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Barry Clifford ,
Paul Perry
[Paperback 2004]
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With the help of the Discovery Channel, undersea explorer Barry Clifford fields an expedition that includes some of America's top experts in shipwreck recovery. Their goal is to find, identify, and possibly excavate the remains of history's most famous pi... more
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Meshack Khosa
[Paperback 2000]
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Mike Nicol
[Paperback 2001]
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An acclaimed author reconsiders Cape Town, past and present, as he resettles in a changed environment after a year-long sojourn in Berlin.... more
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Andrew Norman
[Paperback 2008]
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A former guerrilla leader who headed the resistance movement against white minority rule, Robert Mugabe was swept to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 on a tide of national euphoria with promises of peace, prosperity, and racial harmony. He then proceeded to pres... more
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Rebekah Lee
[Hardcover 2009]
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A key mechanism of apartheid in South Africa was the set of restrictions placed on the movements of Africans; in particular, African women were subject to lives of daily surveillance and highly regulated housing, employment and mobility. Here Lee explo... more
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John S Saul
[Paperback 2008]
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