The rise of African history as a distinct academic discipline coincided with a shift away from
formal colonial control and towards independent African nation states. It is not surprising …

The title of Robert Ross' collection of essays contains within it a pun. As the frontiers of white
settlement in the pre-industrial Cape Colony advanced, paleskinned colonists went beyond …

In this wide-ranging conversation, six scholars of South Africa detail threads of continuity
and change in the historiographies, popular memories, archives, research agendas …

In 1974 sitting in the L lecture block at the University of Durban-Westville as a first year
student while the lecturer before me launched forth about the ancient civilisations of Egypt …

The essays in this special issue reflect the recent revival of interest in–for want of a better
term–late pre-colonial history in southern African studies, and a renewed dialogue between …

Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African
historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching …

This paper seeks to outline a new research agenda for the comparative historical study of
South African society. It argues that the existing work in the field exhibits several limitations …

While many of those who have written about South Africa have included reference to past
events, it was only from the early 19th century that attempts were made to present a coherent …

The last half century has witnessed a general revolution in historical writin In England, for
instance, the studies of Sir Lewis Namier and Professo Butterfield, to name but a few, have …

It is a pleasure to peruse again these collected articles and essays by one of Africa's
foremost historians and intellectuals, Bethwell Allan Ogot. African history barely existed in …