This dissertation is an extended essay dealing with historical productions on the late
independent era (the late “pre-colonial” epoch) of the wider KwaZulu-Natal region. The …

The 2001 launch of the fifth volume of the James Stuart Archive reinforces this publication's
reputation as a mother lode of primary evidence. The Archive's existence is largely due to …

This book is concerned with the times before the establishment of European colonial rule in
southern Africa. Colonial rule began in the south-western Cape in the 1650s and gradually …

Twenty-five years have passed since GN Sanderson published" The Mo Sudan, 1820-1956:
The Present Position of Historical Studies"(1963). 1 Sin much history has been made and …

In most of Africa there are written materials from the eras before colonialism that offer a view
of the kinds of ideas, cultural life, and currents of political thought, as well as practices and …

This volume presents, largely in reprinted form, the collected works of Dierk Lange to date. It
is divided into five sections of studies considering, respectively, trans-Saharan relations; the …

After reflecting on the mixed reception accorded to his book, The Great Treks, the author
points to the many obstacles that stand in the way of dismantling the customary perspective …

One of the more curious intellectual detours in academic recountings of African history is the
common idea that ethnicity was a colonial creation and that the records of colonial officials …

Nearly half the first volume of the Oxford History represents the individual contribution of one
of the two editors, Professor Monica Wilson. 1 If we add to her four chapters the chapter by …

Oral portrayals of the past as made in precolonial societies in southern Africa have very
often been seen as 'tribal traditions', a perspective which obscures the historical processes …