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 …

Archives of Times Past'explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa's time
before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in …

Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthelezi, and Helen Ludlow, is an interesting and
accessible book that provides a tangible lesson: that archives come into being through …

I originally organized the roundtable on which these papers are based for no more
intellectual reason than I had not been to a meeting of the African Studies Association for …

The goal of African history is not only to establish a chronology of events but also to recover
the past from the local African perspective. The challenge is how to recover local ways of …

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 …

Perspectives on southern Africa's past in the eras before the establishment of European
colonial rule have been heavily shaped by political conflicts rooted in South Africa's history …

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 long southern African past before the advent of European colonialism remains
neglected despite powerful post-apartheid impulses of various kinds for its recovery and …

Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates
the story of this vast continent over the past 10,000 years. Africa is a huge continent, as large …