The Sun Will Rise is a powerful collection of statements made in court by Southern African political prisoners during the apartheid era. Edited by Mary Benson, the volume documents the voices of individuals charged under oppressive legislation in South Africa and neighboring countries. These statements reveal the moral, political, and personal convictions of activists who resisted racial segre…
he Battlefronts of Southern Africa by Colin Legum provides a detailed examination of the political and military struggles that shaped Southern Africa during the late twentieth century. Drawing on material previously published in Africa Contemporary Record, the book analyzes regional conflicts, South Africa’s foreign policy under apartheid, and the liberation movements that arose in neighborin…
The Atlas describes the legislation and impact of apartheid and the resistance, both local and international, to its racial policies. The integration of detailed maps and text reinforces the specifically spatial nature of apartheid, the way the map of South Africa was redrawn and continues to be redrawn
Since June 1964, Nelson Mandela has been imprisoned in South Africa. His speeches and writings have been banned, his words and voice cut off from his people. A whole generation has been born and grown up while he has been in jail, yet, in the words of Nadine Gordimer, "there is no black child in whose face, at the mention of his name, there is not instant recognition." For Nelson Mandela is a l…