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African National Congress
Author_Brian Willan
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Author_Sol T. Plaatje
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Civil Wars
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Kenya
Siege of Mafeking
South African War
Product details
- ISBN 9780852557808
- Weight: 306g
- Dimensions: 136 x 212mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1999
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A contemporary account of the war from an African intellectual.
This diary offers a view of the siege of Mafeking, one of the most famous sieges of the South African War. The author, Sol Plaatje, was one of the founders of the African National Congress in 1912. Additional material from oral and archival research has also been incorporated into this edition.
South Africa: David Philip/New Africa Books
Brian Willan is Senior Research Fellow at Rhodes University, Extraordinary Professor at Sol Plaatje and North West Universities. He has written extensively on Sol Plaatje and other aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century South African history and literature. He is author of Sol Plaatje: a life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932 (Jacana, 2018), and co-editor (with Janet Remmington and Bheki Peterson) of Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present, co-edited (Wits UP, 2016) and (with Sabata Mokae), of a collection of Plaatje's letters, to be published by Historical Publications Southern Africa in 2020.
