Most research on the migrant labour system in Namibia under South African colonial rule emphasise...

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

Civil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled succ...

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

This book encompasses a history of identity-building amongst Khwe San people, and of contestation...

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

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

This collection of essays documents the growth of African history as a discipline at the Universi...

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

The most extensive urban demographic transitions ahead will take place in Africa and Asia. These ...

The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917. She spent 32 years working in E...

Women,s contributions against apartheid under the auspices of the Namibian liberation movement SW...