A History of Southern Africa

Description

From early human civilisation to today, this book illuminates the history of southern Africa. Interweaving social, cultural and political history, archaeology, anthropology and environmentalism, Neil Parsons and Alois Mlambo provide an engaging account of the region's varied past. Placing African voices and agency at centre stage rather than approaching the subject through a colonial lens, A History of Southern Africa provides an engrossing narrative of the region. This textbook is ideal for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of History and African Studies, and will provide an essential grounding for those taking courses in the history of southern Africa. Its lively and accessible approach will appeal to anyone with an interest in global history.

Alois S. Mlambo is professor emeritus in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has taught at several universities in the last four decades, including Bayero University in Nigeria, University of Zimbabwe, the Universities of Minnesota, Duke, North Carolina and Pretoria. Neil Parsons has forty years teaching experience at universities in Zambia, Swaziland, Botswana, and South Africa, with short-term research positions at Universities of Oxford, London, California at Berkeley, Australian National, and Leiden.