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McMillan's Galloway, a witty and irreverent look at contemporary
Dumfries and Galloway, provides a suitably individualistic snapshot
of a place which operated for so long as an independent entity
completely separate from its neighbours, Scotland and England.
McMillan takes us on a rollicking tour from the Mull of Galloway to
Langholm, through land once shrouded in myth and populated by
warriors, emigrants, fairies and liars, rooting out the truth and
the fiction and frequently confusing them.
Jack Simons: Teacher, Scholar, Comrade is a pocket biography
informed by personal knowledge of its subject, and firsthand
experience of the ANC in exile in Zambia, as well as by research in
the archives and interviews. Born in 1907, Jack Simons was one of
the leading left-wing intellectuals – and one of the greatest
teachers – in 20thcentury South Africa. As a lecturer in African
Studies at the University of Cape Town from 1937 until he was
prevented from teaching by the government in 1964, and thereafter
through his lectures and writings in exile, he had a profound
effect on the thinking of generations of white and black students
and on the liberation movement as a whole. As Albie Sachs wrote in
an obituary in The Guardian (1995), ‘It is not just the way he
influenced so many individuals. It was the impact he had on the
culture of a people. The new South African Constitution requires
that the values of an open and democratic society should be
nurtured. Simons fought all his life both for openness and
democracy. His intellectual rigour, the honesty of his person, the
sweep of his information, the humanity of his vision and
interactiveness and the vitality of his ideas, imprinted themselves
on the generation that fought hardest for liberty and made the most
direct contribution to achieving the new constitutional order.’
Born in Pondoland in 1917, Oliver Tambo cut his political teeth in
the ANC Youth League. This book traces his role as a leader of the
legal ANC through the Defiance Campaign, the Congress of the People
and the Treason Trial, and his evolution from militant ‘Africanism’
towards acceptance of the idea of the ANC as open to people of
different racial groups and political persuasions. The book also
traces his role from the aftermath of Sharpeville in 1960 as, for
30 years, the pre-eminent leader of the ANC in exile in London,
Tanzania and Zambia. It shows how, placing himself at the political
centre of the organisation, he held the ANC together through great
difficulties, managing its relations with African states and great
powers, and steering it towards the negotiated end of apartheid.
The book analyses the sources of Tambo’s strength as a leader,
emphasizing his integrity and commitment to democracy, and the
importance to him of religion, music and family.
The Conversation of Sheep is a book by, for, and about sheep. For
those who live in the country sheep are strange punctuation marks
in life, chewing insouciantly in the background while folk are
born, work, live and die below the great and sundering sky. Some of
these poems feature sheep as bucolic extras in the film of life,
others delve deep into the secret nature and personalities of sheep
themselves. Hugh McMillan is an award winning poet and Michael
Robertson, whose photographs also populate this book, is a shepherd
who lives in the same village.
Chris Hani is one of the most iconic black leaders in South
Africa's recent history. His assassination in 1993 by far-right
wingers threatened to upset the negotiations process and required
Mandela's televised address to the nation to calm tempers. This
short biography brings out his role in MK and in the politics of
the early 1990s, and is written by a distinguished historian who
met Hani in exile in Lusaka.
Taking in the years of the pandemic, McMillan’s poetry takes us
on a trip through his life and imagination, his hopes, observations
and dreams. It’s never less than an interesting journey. He is an
accessible, humorous and tender writer. He is one of Scotland’s
best.
An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four
influential figures from modern African history. Chris Hani, by
Hugh Macmillan Chris Hani was one of the most highly respected
leaders of the African National Congress, the South African
Communist Party, and uMkhonto we Sizwe. His assassination in 1993
threatened to upset the country's transition to democracy and
prompted an intervention by Nelson Mandela that ultimately
accelerated apartheid's demise. Wangari Maathai, by Tabitha Kanogo
This concise biography tells the story of Wangari Maathai, the
Kenyan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life
to campaigning for environmental conservation, sustainable
development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the
eradication of poverty. Josie Mpama/Palmer: Get Up and Get Moving,
by Robert R. Edgar Highly critical of the patriarchal attitudes
that hindered Black women's political activism, South Africa's
Josie Mpama/Palmer was an outspoken advocate for women's social and
political equality, a member of the Communist Party of South
Africa, and an antiapartheid activist. Ken Saro-Wiwa, by Roy Doron
and Toyin Falola A penetrating, accessible portrait of the Nigerian
activist whose execution galvanized the world. Ken Saro-Wiwa became
a martyr and symbolized modern Africans' struggle against military
dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation.
On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) of South
Africa, the oldest African nationalist organisation on the
continent, celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. This historic
event has generated significant public debate within both the ANC
and South African society at large. There is no better time to
critically reflect on the ANC's historical trajectory and struggle
against colonialism and apartheid than in its centennial year. One
Hundred Years of the ANC is a collection of new work by renowned
South African and international scholars. Covering a broad
chronological and geographical spectrum and using a diverse range
of sources, the contributors build upon but also extend the
historiography of the ANC by tapping into marginal spaces in ANC
history. By moving away from the celebratory mode that has
characterised much of the contemporary discussions on the
centenary, the contributors suggest that the relationship between
the histories of earlier struggles and the present needs to be
rethought in more complex terms. Collectively, the book chapters
challenge hegemonic narratives that have become an established part
of South Africa's national discourse since 1994. By opening up
debate around controversial or obscured aspects of the ANC's
century-long history, One hundred years of the ANC sets out an
agenda for future research. The book is directed at a wide
readership with an interest in understanding the historical roots
of South Africa's current politics will find this volume
informative. This book is based on a selection of papers presented
at the One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories
and Democracy Today Conference held at the University of
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg from 20-23 September 2011.
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This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual
contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most
significant social anthropologists of the twentieth century. Max
Gluckman was the founder in the 1950s of the Manchester School of
Social Anthropology. He did fieldwork among the Zulu of South
Africa in the 1930s and the Lozi of Northern Rhodesia/Zambia in the
1940s. This book describes in detail his academic career and the
lasting influence of his Analysis of A Social Situation in Modern
Zululand (1940-42) and of his two large monographs on the legal
system of the Lozi. From the Introduction: Max Gluckman was the
most influential of a group of social anthropologists who emerged
from South Africa during the 1930s into what was essentially a new
academic discipline. His description and analysis of events in real
time implied a rejection of contemporary social anthropological
practice, of the ‘ethnographic present’, and of hypothetical or
conjectural reconstructions and an acceptance of the need to study
‘primitive’ societies in the context of the modern world.
This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community
in central Africa. It tells the story of the coming of the first
Jews to the area in the late 19th century, the heyday of the Jewish
community in the mid-20th century, and its decline since Zambian
independence. Dealing primarily with the Jewish traders in Zambia
who flourished in the face of both anti-semitism and their own
acute social dislocation, Macmillan explores a number of
interrelated topics: the colonial office discussions about Jewish
immigration in the 1930s, the attempts to settle refugees in Africa
by both pro- and anti-semites, Jewish religious life in the region,
and the remarkable cultural and professional role played by the
Jewish settlers. Setting these issues in the context of a general
history of southern and central Africa, this book constitutes a
major contribution to our understanding of the economic history of
the entire region. It will be of interest to both historians of
Africa and anyone concerned with economic development, identity and
immigrant communities.
Heliopolis is Hugh McMillan's sixth collection of poetry. The poems
range from his kitchen table to Greece, St Petersburg and Mars. He
finds the universal in the purely local and the local in the
universal. Where people live, breath, hope and suffer that's where
his poetry is, as legacy, dream and testament.
This biography shows how Black political leader Chris Hani's life
and death were pivotal to ending apartheid and to establishing a
democratic government in South Africa. Chris Hani is one of the
most iconic figures in South Africa's history, as a leader within
the African National Congress (ANC) and as chief of staff of
uMkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC. His assassination in
1993 by a far-right militant threatened negotiations to end
apartheid and install a democratic government. Serious tensions
followed the assassination, leading Nelson Mandela to address the
nation in an effort to avert further violence: Tonight I am
reaching out to every single South African, black and white, from
the very depths of my being. A white man, full of prejudice and
hate, came to our country and committed a deed so foul that our
whole nation now teeters on the brink of disaster. A white woman,
of Afrikaner origin, risked her life so that we may know, and bring
to justice, this assassin. The cold-blooded murder of Chris Hani
has sent shock waves throughout the country and the world... Now is
the time for all South Africans to stand together against those
who, from any quarter, wish to destroy what Chris Hani gave his
life for: the freedom of all of us. Hugh Macmillan's concise
biography details Hani's important role in shaping
twentieth-century South African history.
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