In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of
African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in …

In The Roots of Ethnicity, Ronald R. Atkinson argues that although colonial rule and its
aftermath have played a major role in shaping the particular manifestations of ethnicity in …

The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in
1835-36-the Great Trek-has always been a potent icon of Africaaner nationalism and …

The young black activists whose rejection of their parents' complacency led to the 1976
Soweto uprising and the eventual demise of apartheid are part of a long tradition of …

This is a compelling study of the origins and trajectory of a legendary black uprising against
apartheid-the Alexandra Rebellion of 1986. Using insights from the literature on collective …

Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar WEB Du Bois
speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of" the color …

Set within the changing political geography of Cape Town, South Africa, this study constructs
a social history of African women through an examination of the complex process and …

This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the
brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories …

The African National Congress (ANC) is the oldest and most durable of African nationalist
movements, not only in South Africa but also across the continent. Since 1994, it has …

For centuries, economic relations in southern Africa were profoundly shaped by
interventions that sought to attract and coerce workers to participate in colonial and …