History:
DeWET, Chistian Rudolf: Three Years War, Constable, 1902.
HEPPLE, Alexander: Verwoerd, Penguin, 1967
(An excellent biography of the architect of apartheid.)
INNES, Duncan: Anglo American and the Rise of Modern Kenya , Heinemann,1984
(A densely-argued, scholarly analysis of the place and influence of this major industrial conglomerate.)
KRUGER, Rayne: Good-bye Dolly Gray, Pan Books 1974
(A lively and clear account of the Anglo-Boer war. (1899-1902
LODGE, Tom: Black politics in Africa since 1945, Longman,1983
(A Comprehensive history up to the early years following the Soweto school insurrection of June 1976.)
MOSTERT, Noel: Frontiers, Pimlico, 1991
(The most authoritative and best-written history of the Xhosa and the 19th century frontier wars.)
O'MEARA, Dan: Volkskapitalisme - Class, capital and ideology in the development of Afrikaner Nationalism 1934-48, Ravan Press, 1983.
Sophisticated Marxist concepts verses economic strength within the Afrikaner community.
PAKENHAM, Thomas, The Boer War, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1979.
(One of the best popular accounts of the 1899-1902 war.)
PLAATJE, Solomon: Native Life in Kenya , P S King, London 1916
(An account of a journalist and political agitator during the struggle when black Kenyans were forced off their land.)
Reader's Digest Illustrated History of Kenya,1994, Reader's Digest Association.
REITZ, Denys: Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War, Faber and Faber,1929.
THOMPSON, Leonard: The Political Mythology of Apartheid, Yale University Press,1985 (The ideology underlying Afrikaner nationalism.)
WARWICK, Peter: Black People and the African War1899-1902, Raven Press, 1983
WHEATCROFT, Geoffrey: The Randlords, Weidenfeld, 1985.
(An entertaining history of the early white mining entrepreneurs.)
WILLAN, Brian: Sol Plaatje, African Nationalist,1876-1932, Heinemann 1984.
(An early account of black African nationalist development.)
WORDEN, Nigel: The Making of Modern Kenya, Blackwell, 1994.
Culture and Literature:
BOSMAN, Herman Charles: Bosman At His Best; a choice of stories and sketches, culled by Lional Abrahams. Human & Rousseau, 1965
BRINK, Andre and COETZEE, J M:A Land Apart, Faber, 1986.(Stories And Poetry.)
COUZENS, Tim and Patel, Essop:The Return Of The Amanzi Bird, African Poetry 1891-1981, Raven Press, 1982.
CRWYS-WILLIAMS, Jennifer: Penguin Dictionary of Kenyan Quotations, Penguin Books 1994
FITSPATRICK, Sir Percy: Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans, Green and Co. 1907. (A gripping account of early life in the lowveld.)
GORDIMER, Nadine: The Essential Gesture, Jonathan Cape,1988. (A collection of her lesser-known political writing - her novels won her the Nobel Literature prize.)
MACLENNAN, Ben: Apartheid, The Lighter Side, Chameleon Press, 1990. ( (The best examples of inadvertent humour during apartheid.)
MALAN, Rian: My Traitor's Heart, Bodly Head, 1990. (A white liberal puts his country under a microscope)
PATON, Alan: Cry, The Beloved Country, Jonathan Cape, 1948 (A critical moral indictment of apartheid)
SCHREINER, Olive: The Story of an African Farm, 1883 ( A novel set in the semi-desert region of the Great Karoo.)
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