Category: Books
Poder do Poder
Operação Produção e a invenção dos “improductivos” urbanos no Moçambique Socialista, 1983-1988 Carlos Quembo Maputo, Alcance Editores, collection “Regards Croisés França|Moçambique”, 2017, 104 p. In May 1983, Frelimo, the party-state which has been running the country since independence in 1975, implemented a nationwide policy aiming at transforming “urban unproductive people”...
Organise or die?
Democracy and Leadership in South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2017, 344 p. On the occasion of the launch of Raphaël Botiveau’s Organise or Die? Democracy and Leadership in South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers, the author will take part in a series of public discussions. This publication and...
L’Afrique cosmopolite
Circulations internationales et sociabilités citadines Catherine Fournet-Guérin Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, collection “Géographie Sociale”, 2017, 200 p. Ce livre s’intéresse au cosmopolitisme méconnu et pourtant ancien des villes d’Afrique au sud du Sahara, processus ravivé dans le cadre de la mondialisation depuis les années 1990. De ces mobilités et...
Kromdraai : a Birthplace of Paranthropus in the Cradle of Humankind
A South African Heritage Site José Braga & John Francis Thackeray (ed.) African Sun Media, Stellenbosch, 2016, 111p. This book is dedicated to the palaeontogical site of Kromdraai, one of the most well-known sites of the ‘Cradle of Humankind’, the famous UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Gauteng province...
The White Lady and Atlantis: Ophir and Great Zimbabwe
Investigation of an Archaeological Myth Jean-Loïc Le Quellec Oxford, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2016, 320p. This meticulous investigation, based around a famous rock image, the ‘White Lady’, makes it possible to take stock of the mythical presuppositions that infuse a great deal of scientific research, especially in the case of rock...
Cape Town Harmonies
Memory, Humour & Resilience Armelle Gaulier, Denis-Constant Martin Cape Town, African Minds, 2017, 368p. “Cape Town’s public cultures can only be fully appreciated through recognition of its deep and diverse soundscape. We have to listen to what has made and makes a city. The ear is an integral part of...
Southern African Humanities – Volume 29, 2016
Elands Bay Cave and the Stone Age of the Verlorenvlei, South Africa John Parkington, Guillaume Porraz (ed.) Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 2016, 306p. Elands Bay Cave is a small coastal rock shelter formed in quartzite that contained up to ca. 3 m of anthropogenic and geogenic deposits with archaeological materials dating...
Le massif de Lovo, sur les traces du royaume de Kongo
Geoffroy Heimlich Cambridge, Archaeopress, collection Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 95, 2017, vol.1, 196 p. et vol.2, 512 p. À la différence des arts rupestres du Sahara ou d’Afrique australe, ceux d’Afrique centrale restent encore aujourd’hui largement méconnus. Bien que signalé dès le XVIe par Diego del Santissimo Sacramento, l’art...
Eskom: Electricity and Technopolitics in South Africa
Sylvy Jaglin, Alain Dubresson Cape Town, UCT Press, 2016, 196 p. Africa’s leading producer of electricity, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, is also a vertically integrated monopoly owned by the South African state. Eskom was shaken in 2008, when it was obliged to introduce ‘load shedding’, or rolling blackouts, and again...
Afrique du Sud : 20 ans de démocratie contrastée
Raphaël Porteilla, Judith Hayem, Marianne Séverin, Pierre-Paul Dika (dir.) Paris, L’Harmattan, 2016, 355p. Les récents revers électoraux du Congrès national africain (ANC) signent comme la clôture d’un cycle, ouvert il y a un peu plus de vingt ans avec la fin de l’apartheid. Tirées d’un colloque pluridisciplinaire tenu à Dijon...