Poppie (Coronet Books)

Joubert, Elsa

Jonathan Ball

The Super-Afrikaners (Inside the Afrikaner Broederbond)

Biographies & Memoirs

Ivor Wilkins

Leaders & Notable People

The springing of the year: A South African country diary

Gillian Rattray

Maps of Southern Africa

Norwich, I

A table at the Cape

Helmine Myburgh

Arts & Photography

The Soul of the White Ant

Science & Math

Eugène N. Marais

Biological Sciences

In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary individual) in the name of Commerce, Christianity, ‘Civilization’ and Conquest. The Scramble for Africa is the first full-scale study of that extraordinary episode in history.

The Scramble For Africa, 1876-1912

Politics & Social Sciences

PAKENHAM, THOMAS

Politics & Government

A narrative of the Boer War, one of the final wars of British imperialism. A readable work for those interested in South African histroy or the British in Africa.

The Boer War

History

Africa

A hair-raising account about the ins and outs of practising forensic pathology in Africa As a medical detective of the modern world, forensic pathologist Ryan Blumenthal’s chief goal is to bring perpetrators to justice. He has performed thousands of autopsies, which have helped bring numerous criminals to book. In Autopsy he covers the hard lessons learnt as a rookie pathologist, as well as some of the most unusual cases he’s encountered. During his career, for example, he has dealt with high-profile deaths, mass disasters, death by lightning and people killed by African wildlife. Blumenthal takes the reader behind the scenes at the mortuary, describing a typical autopsy and the instruments of the trade. He also shares a few trade secrets, like how to establish when a suicide is more likely to be a homicide. Even though they cannot speak, the dead have a lot to say – and Blumenthal is there to listen.

Autopsy: Life in the trenches with a forensic pathologist in Africa

Blumenthal, Ryan

Historical

In Foreign Native, political commentator and author RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa.\nFrom schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable political commentator, Johnson has produced an entertaining and occasionally eye-popping memoir brimming with history, anecdote and insight.\nJohnson charts his evolution from enthusiastic, left-leaning Africanist to political realist, relating episodes that influenced his intellectual worldview, including time spent among the exiled liberation movements in London during the 1960s, a sojourn in newly independent Guinea and more recent forays into Zimbabwe. There are wonderful stories, some hilarious, others filled with pathos, about the multitude of characters that he met along the way.\nPerceptive, critical and full of verve, Foreign Native is leavened with a deep humanity that is a pleasure to read.

Foreign Native: An African Journey

Johnson, RW

Memoirs

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