Southern Africa (History) # 484/584

     Greetings and welcome to "SOUTHERN AFRICA."  This course explores the impact of four centuries of colonial control in what became Africa's wealthiest nation, South Africa. It further explores the subsequent powerful economic and imperial stranglehold that South Africa has had over its colonial and post-colonial neighbors (Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Angola). Yet, South Africa differs from all others in Africa in that the history of this land is not just one of black people but also the long history of white people. This country is unique in that its history has more parallels with the United States than any other in Africa. The Europeans first settled in 1652 and it took until 1994 before South Africa had its first nationwide democratic elections after which the country saw its first African leader in power. This course therefore will provide a rigorous intellectual challenge which will include research, critical thinking, writing and class presentations. Lectures are presented in a thematic fashion utilizing a video and discussion format.

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NOVELS PRESENTLY LOCATED IN

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NON-FICTION BOOKS: GENERAL BACKGROUND TO A

 HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA:

Robert Ross, A Concise History of South Africa (Cambridge, 1999).

Leonard Thompson, A History of South Africa (New Haven: Yale University Press,  1995).

Peter Hain, Sing the Beloved Country The Struggle for the New South Africa (London:  Pluto Press, 1996).

Nigel Worden, The Making of Modern South Africa (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).

MORE SPECIFIC READINGS ON SOUTH AFRICA

Gail M. Gerhart, Black Power in South Africa the Evolution of an Ideology   (Berkeley, University of California: 1979).

Barry Denenberg, Nelson Mandela No Easy Walk to Freedom (New York: Scholastic Inc. 1995).

Mamphela Ramphele, Across Boundaries The Journey of a South African Woman Leader (New York: The Feminist Press, 995).

Winnie Mandela, Part of My Soul Went With Him (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1985).

Nelson Mandela, The Struggle is My Life (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1986).

E. A. Ritter, Shaka Zulu (New York: Viking, 1985).

Patti Waldmeir, Anatomy of a Miracle The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997).

Roger Southall, South Africa's Transkei The Political Economy of an Independent Bantustan (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983).

Nicholas Cope, To Bind the Nation Solomon kaDinuzulu and Zulu Nationalism 1913-1933 (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1993).

Saul Dubow, Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa (Cambridge, 1995).

P. Olisanwuche Esedebe, Pan Africanism The Idea and Movement, 1776-1963  (Washington D.C.: Howard University Press, 1982).

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       BOOKS ON SOUTHERN AFRICA

John S. Saul, Recolonization and Resistance in Southern Africa in the 1990s (Tenton: Africa World Press, 1993).

Terence Ranger, Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe (London:  James Currey, 1985).

William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986).

Donald Denoon and Balam Nyeko, Southern Africa Since 1800  (New York: Longman,1984).

Allen Isaacman, Cotton is The Mother of Poverty Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique 1938-1961 (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1996).

Jeanne Marie Penvenne, African Workers and Colonial Racism Mozambican Strategies and Struggles in Lourenco Marques, 1877-1962 (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1995).

Glen Lyndon Dodds, The Zulus and Matabele Warrior Nations (London: Arms and Armour, 1998).

Malyn Newitt, A History of Mozambique (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).

 BOOKS ON RELIGION

David Chidester, Savage Systems Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996).

Thomas G. Walsh, Frank Kaufmann, editors. Religion and Social Transformation in Southern Africa (Minnesota: Paragon House, 1999).

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