Covering the entire continent from Morocco, Libya, and Egypt in the north to the Cape of
Good Hope in the south, and the surrounding islands from Cape Verde in the west to …

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 book has taken on a life of its own and become something quite different from the
original dissertation that I wrote under the supervision of JDY Peel. I would like to thank …

Why explore the life of an archive, and what might it mean to study its “life” as opposed to
writing its history? The proposition of an archive having a life is, on the face of it, counter …

A decade after South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy, HIV/AIDS has
superseded freedom struggles as the urgent matter of the day. With one of the highest …

The origin and evolution of the nineteenth-century Zulu Kingdom are used to examine two
competing state formation theories: Robert Carneiro's circumscription theory and Elman …

Examines indigenous oral traditions and histories in order to explain the factors propelling
sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms in nineteenth …

This article discusses the evocation of the sacred in the realm of material heritage practice,
drawing on the creation of Freedom Park, a monumental, state-driven post-apartheid …

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 …

Through an examination of key aspects of the historical processes of the making of the
image of the early nineteenth-century Zulu king, Shaka, this study offers a new perspective …