Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.

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This unique history highlights South Africa's complex and dynamic attempt to build a developmental state; an attempt that ultimately faltered.

With nearly two hundred and fifty individually signed entries, the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History explores the ways in which the peoples of A

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