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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter limb”
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  • The ANC's Early Years

    Nation, Class and Place in South Africa before 1940

    by Peter Limb ...
    Series series 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa
    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 governed the country as leader of the Tripartite Alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and South African Communist Party (SACP). The early decades of the twentieth century saw the establishment, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of South Africa

    by Christopher Saunders, Peter Limb ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Africa
    As the most influential and powerful country on the entire continent of Africa, an understanding of South Africa’s past and its present trends is crucial in appreciating where South Africans are going to, and from where they have come. South Africa changed dramatically in 1994 when apartheid was dismantled, and it became a democratic state. Since 2000, when the previous edition appeared, further ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • The People’s Paper

    A centenary history and anthology of Abantu-Batho

    by Paul Landau, Grant Christison, Christopher Lowe, Sarah Mkhonza, Peter Limb, Les Switzer, Christopher Saunders, Jeff Opland, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu, Robert Trent Vinson0 ...
    This much-awaited volume uncovers the long-lost pages of the major African multilingual newspaper, Abantu-Batho.Founded in 1912 by African National Congress (ANC) convenor Pixley Seme, with assistance from the Swazi Queen, it was published up until 1931, attracting the cream of African politicians, journalists and poets Mqhayi, Nontsisi Mgqweth, and Grendon. In its pages burning issues of the day ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Taking African Cartoons Seriously

    Politics, Satire, and Culture

    Edited by Peter Limb, Tejumola Olaniyan ...
    Series series African Humanities and the Arts
    Cartoonists make us laugh—and think—by caricaturing daily events and politics. The essays, interviews, and cartoons presented in this innovative book vividly demonstrate the rich diversity of cartooning across Africa and highlight issues facing its cartoonists today, such as sociopolitical trends, censorship, and use of new technologies. Celebrated African cartoonists including Zapiro of South ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • A Concise History of South Africa

    by Robert Ross ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Lays emphasis on the continuing influence of the country's African heritage whilst also chronicling the processes of colonial conquest and of economic development stemming from the industrial revolution. This is followed by an analysis of the fundamental political changes South Africa has undergone, and a background for understanding those many things which have not changed. ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • A History of Zimbabwe

    by Alois S. Mlambo ...
    The first single-volume history of Zimbabwe with detailed coverage from pre-colonial times to the present, this book examines Zimbabwe's pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial social, economic and political history and relates historical factors and trends to recent developments in the country. Zimbabwe is a country with a rich history, dating from the early San hunter-gatherer societies. The ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Roots

    The History How Britain Carved South Africa's Neo-Liberal Age, 1806-1996

    by Thembinkosi Lehloesa ...
    In Africa no European country has had an influence as Britain. The first tangible break in the development was achieved by the South African parliament in 1934. But already Britain had shaped and predetermined South Africas future. The country wanted no other than evolutionary change, and this theme informed all administrations. Deception was the name of the game as was the violation of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

    Farmersí Voices from Zimbabwe

    by Rory Pilossof ...
    The history of colonial land alienation, the grievances fuelling the liberation war, and post-independence land reforms have all been grist to the mill of recent scholarship on Zimbabwe. Yet for all that the countryís white farmers have received considerable attention from academics and journalists, the fact that they have always played a dynamic role in cataloguing and representing their own ... Read more

    $163.69 USD

  • Year of Fire, Year of Ash

    The Soweto Schoolchildren’s Revolt that Shook Apartheid

    by Baruch Hirson ...
    'We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the centuries-old white rule in this country.'Nelson MandelaOriginally banned on publication by the apartheid government, Year of Fire, Year of Ash is an eye-opening account of how, in June 1976, 20,000 school students faced down the tanks and guns of a vicious racist regime, in a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Race Game

    Sport and Politics in South Africa

    by Douglas Booth ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    1999 North American Society for Sports History Book of the YearDouglas Booth looks at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa. He analyzes the effect of the 30-year sport boycott but concludes that sport will never unite South Africans except in the most fleeting and superficial manner. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Africans in Britain

    Edited by David Killingray ...
    This collection of essays looks at the history of African people in Britain mainly over the past 200 years ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Mandela's Kinsmen

    Nationalist Elites and Apartheid's First Bantustan

    by Timothy Gibbs ...
    Mandela's Kinsmen is the first study of the fraught relationships between the ANC leadership and their relatives who ruled apartheid's foremost "tribal" Bantustan, the Transkei. In the early 20th century, the chieftaincieshad often been well-springs of political leadership. In the Transkei, political leaders, such as Mandela, used regionally rooted clan, schooling and professional connections to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD