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Skotaville Publishers

Subject: Literature, Bibliography

The first black-owned publishing house in South Africa, founded in 1982. Supported by donor funding, Skotaville developed a list with a black-consciousness and protest focus. It pioneered ...

Mtshali, Mbuyiseni Oswald Joseph

Mtshali, Mbuyiseni Oswald Joseph (1940)   Reference library

Dictionary of African Biography

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2011
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
986 words

...his research material was destroyed by a fire at the Aurora Girls Secondary School near Pace College, where his research assistant had compiled the documents. The surviving documents were published as Give Us a Break: Diaries of a Group of Soweto Children in 1988 by Skotaville Publishers. Mtshali subsequently left South Africa for New York once more. He spent most of the following two decades teaching at the New York City College of Technology. He returned to South Africa in the early twenty-first century. [ See also Gordimer, Nadine .] bibliography...

Tutu, Desmond Mpilo

Tutu, Desmond Mpilo (1931–)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of Africa

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Social sciences, Regional and Area Studies, History, Regional and National History
Length:
955 words
Illustration(s):
1

...; Black Consciousness in Africa . A Good Shepherd Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town, South Africa, 2005. ( Obed Zilwa/AP Images ) Bibliography Du Boulay, Shirley. Tutu: Voice of the Voiceless . Hodder and Stoughton, 1989. Tutu, Desmond. Hope and Suffering . Skotaville Publishers, 1983. Kate...

African Biography and Historiography

African Biography and Historiography   Reference library

Heather Hughes

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2019
Subject:
History, Regional and National History, Archaeology
Length:
11,136 words

... 35. Luli Callinicos , Oliver Tambo: Beyond the Engeli Mountains (Cape Town: David Philip, 2004). 36. Mary Benson , Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement (London, UK: Penguin, 1986); and Fatima Meer , Higher than Hope: “Rolihlahla We Love You” (Johannesburg: Skotaville, 1988). Re-issued as Higher than Hope: The Authorised Biography of Nelson Mandela (London, UK: Penguin, 1990). 37. Nelson Mandela , Long Walk to Freedom (Randburg [South Africa]: Macdonald Purnell, 1994). 38. Author Mandla Langa produced a kind of sequel to the 1994...

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