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African Studies VOLUME
58 Number 2 December 1999
Contents Introduction
Connections Isabel Hofmeyr 129 Articles
Forgotten Connections, Unconsidered Parallels: A New Agenda for Comparative Research in Southern Africa and the Caribbean Alan G. Cobley 133 Without the West: 1990s Southern African and Indian Woman Writers—A Conversation? Elleke Boehmer 157 Just Cricket: Black Struggles for Racial Justice and Equality Hilary Beckles 171
Travelling Theatre
"Not Even History": A Tale of Two Islands Robert Leyshon 191
Lysistrata in Nairobi: Performing the Power of Womanhood in the Post-colony
George Odera Outa 199 Conference Reports
The TRC: Commissioning the Past Katie Mooney, Noor Nieftagodien and Nicole Ulrich 209 African Environments Past and Present Clive Glaser 219 Contributors 225
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The Burial of Canon J.A. Calata and the Revival of Mass-Based Opposition in
Cradock, South Africa,1983
Michael Tetelman 5
"Strangely hard natures were bred in the South Africa of that day". Rural Settler
Childhood, 1850s-1880s
Simon Dagut 33 From the Ninevites to the Hard Livings Gang: Township Gangsters and Urban
Violence in Twentieth-century South Africa
Gary Kynoch 55 Change and Continuity in South African Education: The Impact of Policy
Linda Chisholm 87 Review Article
The Role of the Heinemann African Writers Series in the Development and Promotion of African Literature
Phaswane Mpe 105 Contributors 123
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Fieldsights: The Anthropological Narration of Post-apartheid South Africa
David B. Coplan 133 Negotiating Segregation: Pre-parliamentary Debate over
the Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923 Susan Parnell 147 South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Public Ritual and Private Transition: The Truth Commission in Alexandra
Township, South Africa 1996 Belinda Bozzoli 167 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the South African Judiciary, and
Constitutionalism Jonathan Klaaren 197 Slouching towards Bethlehem: Ubu and the Truth Commission Lesley Marx 209 Review Articles
The "Fierce Belonging" of Antjie Krog: Review of Country of my Skull by
Antjie Krog, Random House, Johannesburg, 1998 Gerrit Olivier 221 Report of the International Symposium on Globalisation and Social Sciences in
Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, September 1998 Noor Nieftagodien 229 Book Reviews
When the Sleeping Grass Awakens: Land and Power in Swaziland by Richard Levin (reviewed by Christopher Lowe) 239 The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics of the Occult in Postcolonial Africa by
Peter Geschiere (reviewed by Isak Niehaus) 242 Obituary
Leonard Walter Lanham 1921–1997 245 Contributors 247
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Words Across Worlds: Aspects of Language Contact and language Learning
in the Eastern Cape, 1800–1850 Rajend Mesthrie 5 The Rise of the Bushman Penis: Germans, Genitalia and Genocide
Robert Gordon 27 Fighting against the Tide: The White Right and Desegratation in Johannesburg’s
Inner City Alan Morris 55 Orality, Mediation and Subversion in Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi Phaswane Mpe 79 Historical Classification of Khoe (Central Khoisan) Languages of Southern Africa Rainer Vossen 93 Notes, Debates and Correspondence
Where was Raymond Dart Wrong? Goran Strkalj 107 Review Article
American and South African Black History: Comparisons and Connections
Christopher Saunders 113 Book Reviews
Apartheid’s Last Stand: The Rise and Fall of the South African Security State by
Chris Alden (reviewed by Alan Emery) 119 The Making of Apartheid, 1948–1961: Conflict and Compromise by Deborah Posel
(reviewed by Tom Lodge) 121
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