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A Concise History of South Africa / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Lays emphasis on the continuing influence of the country's African heritage whilst also chronicling the processes of colonial conquest and of eco...
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A World of Their Own: A History of South African Women's Education
PaperbackOriginal price $29.50 - Original price $29.50Original price $29.50$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The politics of black education has long been a key issue in southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial and class dimension...
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Art and Revolution: The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Thami Mnyele's life spanned the era of apartheid. He was born the same year the National Party won office and came of age in a time (the 1960s) a...
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African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery
PaperbackOriginal price $29.50 - Original price $29.50Original price $29.50$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813949789 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication Date: 11-03-2023 Pages: 256 Series:...
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Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Diverging from the studies of southern African migrant labor that focus on particular workplaces and points of origin, Bound for Work looks at th...
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Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg After Apartheid - Open Access Selection
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /As the dynamo of South Africa's economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation's imagination, and scholars throughout the world mo...
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Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers: History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /In his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to...
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All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Book of 2022 A USBBY 2023 Outstanding International BookA 2022 Foreword INDIES FinalistHonorable mention, 2023 Children's ...
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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radi...
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History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country's ...
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Lonely Planet South Africa, Lesotho & Eswatini 12
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Lonely Planet's South Africa, Lesotho & Eswatini is your passport to the most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discov...
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Mandela and the General
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this thrilling graphic novel, Nelson Mandela's fight against racism is about to spiral into an all-out race war. Unless he can win over his arch...
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Mfecane Aftermath: Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /The idea that the period of social turbulence in the nineteenth century was a consequence of the emergence of the powerful Zulu kingdom under Shaka...
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One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival
PaperbackOriginal price $26.50 - Original price $26.50Original price $26.50$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival takes readers behind the scenes of one of the world's least known and most colorful carnivals...
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Prickly Pear: A Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South ...
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Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa: Gender, Personhood, and the Crisis of Meaning
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa examines the gendered and generational conflicts surrounding social change in South Africa's rura...
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Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa: Gender, Personhood, and the Crisis of Meaning
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa examines the gendered and generational conflicts surrounding social change in South Africa's rura...
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Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world:...
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Colonial Subjects: An African Intelligentsia and Atlantic Ideas
HardcoverOriginal price $69.50 - Original price $69.50Original price $69.50$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /West African intellectuals have a long history of engaging with European intrusion by reflecting on their status as colonial and postcolonial subje...
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Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /A decade into its hard-won democracy, South Africa and its ruling party, the ANC, have been through turbulent times: confrontation between Thabo Mb...
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Crossroads: I Live Where I Like: A Graphic History
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Drawing on over sixty life narratives, it tells the story of women who built and defended Crossroads, the only African informal settlement that s...
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Statements
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of...
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The Finger of God: Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites, and the Bulhoek Massacre in South Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /On the morning of May 24, 1921, a force of eight hundred white policemen and soldiers confronted an African prophet, Enoch Mgijima, and some thre...
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The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /From the beginning of the nineteenth century through to 1960, Protestant missionaries were the most important intermediaries between South Africa...
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