The white Africans from colonisation to liberation by Gerald L'ange

The white Africans from colonisation to liberation by Gerald L'ange

Out of the collapse of European supremacy in Africa has emerged a modern phenomenon - the white African. For generations, through colonialism and settlement and through apartheid in South Africa, the whites sought to preserve their ancestral links with Europe, to maintain an identity separate from the indigenous majority and to dominate them. The fall of colonialism and apartheid has, however, left some five million whites finally severed from their European roots and facing a new identity as Africans. At the same time they face an uncertain future as an ethnic minority, having surrendered the power they once held to the people they or their forebears dominated and often exploited. Recounted here for the first time this informal history gives a warts-and-all account of the European experience in Africa, from the explorations of the 15th century Portuguese mariners to the presidential inauguration of Nelson Mandela, formally ending white supremacy everywhere in the continent.The story is traced through the Europeans' - exploration and settlement; their slavery and economic exploitation; their conquest and colonisation; through decolonisation and the liberation struggles in Kenya, Algeria, the Portuguese territories, Rhodesia and Namibia to the negotiation of democracy in South Africa. Eschewing both past falsities and recent distortions, the book seeks the truth of the European experience, whether benign or malign. Always it pursues the reasons for actions and events. It examines the present situation of the white Africans and, finally, looks at what might lie ahead for them.

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ISBN 13	9781868422197
ISBN 10	1868422194
Title	The white Africans from colonisation to liberation
Author	Gerald L'ange
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Year published	2005-11-30
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