For the first time in more than two decades, historians and archaeologists are beginning to research the making of collective identities in southern Africa's pre-colonial past in some detail. Long-established notions about these identities are once again coming under critical scrutiny. Building on earlier research with Carolyn Hamilton on the historical meanings of...

Evidence recorded by Natal colonial official James Stuart in conversations with a number of African interlocutors in the early twentieth century suggests that authority over land in the Zulu kingdom (1810s-1879) was not necessarily clearly defined and was subject to contestation. Among Stuart's interlocutors the nature of this authority was taken up in complex and ...

Avec "La Nature est notre Secouriste", les auteurs ont sélectionné quelques affections et nous proposent des conseils (ou des recettes) pour dispenser les premiers soins en utilisant les plantes médicinales, les fruits et légumes disponibles dans notre région sans oublier le miel et l'argile.

... In writing this review I must begin by declaring an interest. In both the books under discussion, my own work, published and unpublished, in the field of the history of southern Africa in the two centuries or so before the establishment of colonial rule, comes in for a certain degree of both praise and criticism. The more significant criticisms extend to work t...