looking for a book on the history of South Africa

through 1872 doesnt quite make it to current day, but thanks

Not a book. Dude gives a brief rundown and current view of the country, I cannot attest to the accuracy of the history given in the first part of the video.

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Dunno, but if you want a preview of how it will all eventually go down, you can read When a Crocodile Eats the Sun about Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.

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thanks for the rec - added to my list

The last resort - a memoir of Zimbabwe

It is about Zimbabwe and not South Africa. If this interests you, it is an amazing book. It talks about how Zimbabwe was after the Zimbabweans took over and the Rhodesians had to leave or survive in the harsh country.

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Won't take you past the 70s (published 1980) but The Covenant by Michener was a fun way to breeze through the gist of it.

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That's a great read. So is the previously mentioned Crocodile book.

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Dunno, but if you want a preview of how it will all eventually go down, you can read When a Crocodile Eats the Sun about Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.

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Fantastic book. Not South Africa, but the end result is the same.

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Wilbur Smith i

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looking now. is his stuff historical fiction?

Stop reading after 1992.

From my personal library, most of which were acquired from my college days back in the 90s. I was a history major and took one course in African history, which was required, but it was quite involved (a lot of reading and writing). My professor was an excellent teacher, very intelligent, and never hinted at any of his political ideology. He later become my adviser for my honors thesis. He spent considerable years in Africa as the child of Christian missionaries, graduated from Baylor and completed his PhD at Northwestern University. Last I checked, a few years ago, he was still there at my alma mater as associate dean for humanities. The first title listed I acquired in post school adulthood.




The Washing of the Spears by Donald Morris

I Write What I Like by Steve Biko

Black Reformed: Apartheid, Liberation, and The Calvinist Tradition by Allan Boesak

Which Way Is South Africa Going? by Gwendolen Carter

Waiting: The Whites of South Africa by Vincent Crapanzano

The Discarded People by Cosmos Desmond

Black Power in South Africa: The Revolution of an Ideology by Gail Gerhart

Freedom Rising by James North