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Spear - Mandela and the Revolutionaries (Hardcover)
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Spear - Mandela and the Revolutionaries (Hardcover)
Series: New African Histories
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A revelatory and definitive account of how Nelson Mandela and his
peers led South Africa to the brink of revolution against the
postwar twentieth century's most infamously racist regime. Spear:
Mandela and the Revolutionaries brings to life the brief
revolutionary period in which Nelson Mandela and his comrades
fought apartheid not just with words but also with violence. After
the 1960 Sharpeville police shootings of civilian protesters,
Mandela and his comrades in the mass-resistance order of the
African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party pioneered
the use of force and formed Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the
Nation. A civilian-based militia, MK stockpiled weapons and waged a
war of sabotage against the state with pipe bombs, Molotov
cocktails, and dynamite. In response, the state passed draconian
laws, militarized its police, and imprisoned its enemies without
trial. Drawing from several hundred first-person accounts, most of
which are unpublished, Paul Landau traces Mandela's allies--and
opponents--in communist, pan-Africanist, liberal, and other groups
involved in escalating resistance alongside the ANC. After
Mandela's capture, the Pan Africanist Congress planned to initiate
street violence, and MK organized Operation Mayibuye, an uprising
to be led by trained commandos. The state short-circuited those
plans and subsequently jailed, exiled, tortured, and murdered
revolutionaries. The era of high apartheid then began. Spear
reshapes our understanding of Mandela by focusing on this intense
but relatively neglected period of escalation in the movement
against apartheid. Landau's book is not a biography, nor is it a
history of a militia or an army; rather, it is a riveting story
about ordinary civilians debating and acting together in extremis.
Contextualizing Mandela and MK's activities amid anticolonial
change and Black Marxism in the early 1960s, Spear also speaks to
today's transnational antiracism protests and worldwide struggles
against oppression.
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