Over the last two decades the process of industrialisation
in Africa has generated considerable scholarly interest and debate.
While much of the interest flows from industry's acknowledged potential
as ‘the main lever ...
The immediate genesis of colonial Zimbabwe grew out
of the discovery of the main gold reef on the Witwatersrand
in 1886. When news of the find reached the diamond mining
centre of Kimberley, reaction was mixed. Some ...
'Faction fights' and urban disturbances have been an almost permanent
feature of southern and central African ghetto life since the late 19th century, yet with few exceptions they have never been subjected to detailed ...
Studies of the Scramble for Africa agree on very little beyond the
fact that the topic is immensely broad and extremely complex. For all that
the last decades of the 19th century have been the most closely examined
period ...