Reddit reviews A History of South Africa, Third Edition
We found 2 Reddit comments about A History of South Africa, Third Edition. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Reddit reviews A History of South Africa, Third EditionWe found 2 Reddit comments about A History of South Africa, Third Edition. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
I could never get into Cry, the Beloved Country. I really liked Kaffir Boy, about a little boy growing up in the Alex Township in the 70s and 80s. It's an autobiography but it flows like fiction.
For the history I read a straight up textbook, which was really dry but very informative. When I moved to SA I felt like I knew more about the country's long-term history than most of the people I met, which mattered about as much as encountering a Romanian who was an expert on 1600s America. I read the first edition of A History of South Africa. The link is for the 3rd edition but the 1st edition is what my library had. The 3rd edition is now $0.01 if you're in the US so I guess there's another new edition out.
A History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson is a good general history of the region. It covers from the first human inhabitants to the late 1990s.
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