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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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The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Since its initial publication, The Civilizationsof Africa has established itself as the most authoritative text available on early African histor...
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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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South Africa - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /South Africa has been described as "A World in One Country" and a "Rainbow Nation." Its landscape ranges from miles of glorious beaches to the inla...
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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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Riotous Deathscapes
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Riotous Deathscapes, Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that he terms Mpon...
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Riotous Deathscapes
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Riotous Deathscapes, Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that he terms Mpon...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one ...
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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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How Far We Slaves Have Come!: South Africa and Cuba in Today's World / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $7.00 - Original price $7.00Original price $7.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /Speaking together in Cuba in 1991, Mandela and Castro discuss the place in the history of Africa of Cuba and Angola's victory over the invading U...
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How Can Man Die Better: The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the long and distinguished history of the British Army. At noon a massive Zulu hos...
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Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800-1990
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Gordonia region of the Northern Cape province has received relatively little attention from historians. In Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land d...
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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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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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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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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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