Southern African historiography has become increasingly gender‐sensitive in the last
decade. Primarily as a result of the impact of feminism in the world of work and in …

Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa—
mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the …

How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the
knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William …

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948 offers an inclusive vision of South
Africa's past. Drawing largely from original sources, Paul Landau presents a history of the …

The Drama of South Africa comprehensively chronicles the development of dramatic writing
and performance from 1910, when the country came into official existence, to the advent of …

Political centralisation in the area of present-day North West Province in the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries has conventionally been associated with a broad identity …

The rise of the Zulu power in the early nineteenth century has conventionally been treated
as the outstanding example of a contemporary southern African process of 'state-formation' …

In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in
fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and …

For a number of years the historiography of Southern Africa has been dominated by a
materialist framework that has focused upon modes of production and forms of socio …

In recent years Julian Cobbing has advanced a wide‐ranging critique of the concept of the
Mfecane in southern, central and east African history. The Mfecane, he has maintained, was …