My family did the unthinkable: after getting away with 'playing white' for some years, we went on...

Recent nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa such as communal conservancies and peac...

An increasing number of poor Southern Africans live in poverty-stricken urban slums or shantytown...

The role played by Botswana in various southern African liberation struggles has previously been ...

South Africa is an example of a relatively successful political transition. Nevertheless, the fir...

Voices from the Kavango explores the contribution that the life histories and the voices of the c...

Windhoek in the early 1960s: the 34-year-old politician Clemens Kapuuo knocks at the door of the ...

Taking the history of trade and of traders as its subject matter, this book offers the first econ...

In many instances, the colonial state has left a strong imprint on the postcolonial archive. In t...

This book publishes Martin Legassick's influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South Afr...

Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818-1899), born in Britain, arrived in the Cape Colony in 1820 where she ...

This book brings together recent and ongoing empirical studies to examine two relational kinds of...