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This multi-media resource list, Clark, Nancy & William Worger. Provides a combination of compiled by Susan Conlon of the : The Rise and Fall comparative history, political Princeton Public Library in of . New York: theory, & sociological interpretation partnership with the American Longman, 2004. The protests of policies enacted in South Africa, Library Association, provides a against Apartheid galvanized a Brazil & the United States, showing range of perspectives on the generation across the world. This how state policy & racial issues raised by the upcoming new Seminar Study gives the categorization interact. P.O.V. documentary “Twelve background to the system that Disciples of Nelson Mandela” made Nelson Mandela a household Morrow, Sean et al. Education in that premieres on September name. exile: SOMAFCO, The African 19th, 2006 at 10 p.m. on PBS National Congress in Tanzania, (check local listings at 1978-1992. Human Sciences www.pbs.org/pov/). Davenport, T.H.R. South Africa: Research Council, 2005. A Modern History. New York: Examines the difficulties Palgrave Macmillan; 5th ed., surrounding the formation of the In the wake of his stepfather’s 2000. This book is a self-reliant Solomon Mahlangu death, Thomas Allen Harris comprehensive survey of the whole Freedom College (SOMAFCO). embarks on a journey of of South African history from pre - reconciliation with the man who colonial times to 1999. It handles Ross, Robert. A Concise History raised him as a son but whom he all major topics in some depth, with of South Africa. UK: Cambridge could never call "father." As part of special focus on the dramatic University Press, 1999. the first wave of black South changes in that country since 1990. Describes 1500 years of South African exiles, Harris’s stepfather, African history, from pre-colonial B. Pule Leinaeng, and his 11 times to Nelson Mandela's comrades left their home in Deegan, Heather. The Politics of Presidency. Bloemfontein in 1960. They told the New South Africa. the world about the brutality of the Commission and the 1999 apartheid system and raised elections. New York: Longman, Thompson, Leonard. A History support for the fledgling African 2000. of South Africa, Third Edition. National Congress and its leader, This book provides an appraisal of CT: Yale University Press; 3rd Nelson Mandela. Drawing upon the critical moments in South Africa's edition, 2001. memories of the surviving disciples history: segregation and racial An overview of South African and their families, "Twelve supremacy, black opposition, history which reflects the most Disciples of Nelson Mandela" tells politics under apartheid and current trends in scholarship. an intimate story of family and violence and terror. Written for the general reader, it home against the backdrop of a emphasizes political history, global movement for freedom. A Dubow, Saul. The African especially as related to the co-production of the Independent National Congress. Sutton development of race relations. Television Service (ITVS), in Publishing, 2000. association with P.O.V./American The author presents a narrative Turner, Barry. Southern Africa Documentary and the National history of the ANC, from its Profiled: Essential Facts on Black Programming Consortium. formation to Mandela’s release from Society, Business, and Politics in prison. South Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. ______Johnson, R.W. & Lawrence ADULT NONFICTION Southern Africa Profiled focuses Schlemmer (ed.). Launching primarily on South Africa, while also Democracy in South Africa: The including information on , South African History First Open Election, 1994. CT: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Yale University Press, 1996. , Namibia, Swaziland, Beinart, William. 20th-Century This book, based on a large-scale Tanzania, , and Zimbabwe. South Africa, UK: Oxford and non-partisan public information It features in-depth information on University Press, 2001. project, provides an unparalleled the volatile economic and political This accessible and concise wealth of fascinating information scenes as well as fascinating introduction to South Africa's about the political dynamics of historical and cultural information. th turbulent 20 -Century history is the South Africa and the way the first first to emphasize the social and democratic election really worked. economic history underlying the establishment and fitful dismantling Mandela, Nelson. In His Own of apartheid. Words. Time Warner Books UK. Worden, Nigel. Making of 2004. Modern South Africa: Conquest, Biko, Stephen, and Stubbs, C.R. A collection of the Nobel laureate's Segregation and Apartheid. UK: Aelred (Ed.) I Write What I Like: speeches on a wide variety of Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 3rd Selected Writings. Chicago: subjects. ed.; 2000. University Of Chicago Press, The book examines the major 2002. A selection of Biko's writings Marx, Anthony. Making Race issues in South Africa's history, from 1969, when he became the and Nation: A Comparison of the from the colonial conquests of the president of the South African United States, South Africa. UK: eighteenth and nineteenth Students' Organization, to 1972, Cambridge University Press; centuries, through the when he was prohibited from New Ed edition, 1998. establishment of racism, publishing. segregation and apartheid; the

Delve Deeper into "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela" A film by Thomas Allen Harris

spirit of reform, resistance and historic transition from apartheid to Paying particular attention to the repression of the 1980s and up to democracy. This compelling story is international dimension as well as the present day. told through the lives of four pairs the domestic, the author assesses of South Africans who have the impact of anti-apartheid Post-Apartheid South Africa experienced apartheid from protest, of changing attitudes of opposite sides of the racial and Western governments to the political divide. apartheid regime and the evolution Afolayan, Funso. Culture and of South African government Customs of South Africa. CT: Jones, Peris (ed.) & Kristian policies to the outside world. Greenwood Press, 2004. Stokke (ed.). Democratizing South Africa can be considered the Development: The Politics of Sisk, Timothy. Democratization newest of African nations, with the Socio-Economic Rights in South in South Africa. Princeton ending of Apartheid in 1994. It is Africa. Brill Academic University Press, 1994. one of the most ethnically, Publishers, 2005. Timothy Sisk presents a new way of culturally, and linguistically varied What are the prospects and means conceiving the transition to countries on the continent and the of achieving development through a democracy in South Africa. He economic powerhouse of southern democratic politics of socio- treats the problem of constructing a Africa. This inclusive overview is an economic rights? Starting from the democratic post- apartheid society to South Africa today. position that socio-economic rights in South Africa as part of a larger

are as legally and normatively valid condition common to societies Broderick, Jim. South Africa's as civil and political rights, this deeply divided by ethnic, religious, Foreign Policy: Dilemmas of a anthology explores the politics of racial, or national discord. New Democracy. New York: acquiring and transforming socio - Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. economic rights in South Africa. Sparks, Allister. Beyond the South Africa's momentous transition Miracle: Inside the New South to democracy has had enormous Krog, Antjie. Country of My Africa. 2004. University Of implications for its foreign policy. Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Chicago Press; New ed., 2006. This book examines the country's Limits of Forgiveness in the New A South African journalist provides current and future role, not just South Africa. Michigan: Three a wide-ranging and unflinching within Africa but also within the Rivers Press, 2000. account of the first nine years of international community as a whole. In this book, Antjie Krog, a South democratic government in South The essays also explore broader African journalist and poet who has Africa. Covering both the new issues such as human rights, covered the work of the regime's proud achievements and democratization and the pattern of commission, recounts the drama, its disappointing failures, Allister North-South relations in the new the horrors, the wrenching personal Sparks looks to South Africa's millennium. stories of the victims and their future, asking whether it can

families. overcome its history and current Coombes, Annie. History After global trends to create a truly Apartheid: Visual Culture and nonracial, multicultural, and Public Memory in a Democratic Kuperus, Tracy. State, Civil multiparty democracy. South Africa. Duke University Society and Apartheid in South Press, 2003. Africa: An Examination of Dutch Waldmeir, Patti. Anatomy of a An analysis of how, in the midst of Reformed Church - State Miracle: The End of Apartheid the momentous shift to an inclusive Relations. New York: Palgrave and the Birth of the New South democracy, South Africa’s visual Macmillan, 1999. Tracy Kuperus Africa. Rutgers University Press, and material culture represented focuses on the interaction of 1998.The author’s account of "the the past while at the same time dominant groups within the endgame of apartheid" has the contributing to the very process of Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk authority of an informed observer social transformation. and the South African state over the who is in touch with ordinary people development of race policy (1934- across the country, from the black Glaser, Daryl. Politics and 96) within the broader context of townships to the white rural Society in South Africa. CA: state -civil society relations. "platteland." She also has personal Sage Publications Ltd., 2001. continued access to the leaders on Providing a wide-ranging and critical Lodge, Tom. Politics in South all sides, including Mandela, De introduction to contemporary South Africa: From Mandela to Mbeki. Klerk, Slovo, and business patria rch Africa, this book uses an 2003. Indiana University Press; Harry Oppenheimer. interdisciplinary lens to introduce 2nd ed., 2003. the main debates, historical A leading analyst of South Africa's Wilson, Richard A. et al. The context, and issues that have Politics of Truth and characterized the study of South national and foreign policy chronicles the complexities of the Reconciliation in South Africa: Africa over the la st three decades. transition from apartheid to Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid

democracy and South Africa's State (Cambridge Studies in Goodman, David. Fault Lines: current approach to diplomacy in Law and Society). Cambridge Journeys into the New South Africa and further a field. University Press, 2001. Africa. University of California This book shows the impact of the Press; Updated edition, 2002. MacKinnon, Aran S. The Making TRC in urban African communities in David Goodman, a journalist and of South Africa: Culture and . activist who has witnessed South Politics. NewYork: Prentice Hall, Africa's struggles since the darkest 2003. Biographies days of apartheid, chronicles the

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establishment of apartheid to the present. Jordan, Bojana Vuyisile. We Will Hirson, Denis & Martin Trump.

Be Heard: A South African Exile The Heinemann Book of South Reef, Catherine. This Our Dark Remembers. Quinlan Press, African Short Stories. NH: Country: The American Settlers 1986. Heinemann, 1994. of Liberia. Clarion Books, 2002. Jordan recalls his life in escape and The issue of apartheid pervades this Photo essay presents the nation’s exile, through his experiences as a vibrant collection of 27 South history making use of letters, lawyer, teacher and political African short stories written diaries, photographs, and prints. activist. between 1945 and 1992.

NONFICTION FOR TEENAGE Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Holland, Roy. Pivot of Violence: READERS Freedom: The Autobiography of Tales of the New South Africa. Nelson Mandela. Austin: Holt Writers Club Press, 2000. Egendorf, Laura K. (Ed.). Africa: Rinehart & Winston, 2000. In these stories, the author brings Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing An articulate, moving account of together the atmosphere of violence Viewpoints Series; Detroit: Mandela's life from his "country and change that broods over the Greenhaven Press, 2005. childhood" following his birth on harsh world of the old Apartheid Issues of contemporary Africa are July 18, 1918 to his inauguration as South Africa and which still debated. president of South Africa on May

10, 1994. threatens the stability of the New South Africa. Perspectives of both Somehow Tenderness Survives:

white and black are explored — Stories of Southern Africa. Mathabane, Mark. Boy: perspectives of the victims rather Selected by Hazel Rochman. The True Story of a Black Youth than the oppressors where the New York: Harper & Row, Coming of Age in Apartheid victims are from both sides of the 1988.A collection of ten short South Africa. Northampton, MA: cultural divide. stories and autobiographical Free Press, 1998. accounts by authors of various A unique, first-person account of Holland, Roy & Charles Muller. races expose the conditions of growing up black under apartheid. News from Parched Mountain: racism in South Africa.

Tales from the Karoo in the New Reddy, E.S. & . South Africa. Writers Club Press, No More Strangers Now: Young Oliver Tambo and the Struggle 2000. Voices from a New South Africa. Against Apartheid. Stosius Interviews by Timothy McKee; Inc/Advent Books Division, These vivid stories are set in and around the Karoo town of photographs by Anne 1988. Kareeburg and reflect the tensions Blackshaw; foreward by Arch A compilation of voices in the between the conservative lives of Bishop . New struggle against apartheid that the Afrikaner inhabitants and the York: DK Pub., 1998. expresses India’s involvement in climate of change in the new South A collection of first-person stories the liberation movement. Africa. (including photographs) of twelve

South African teenagers of different Woods, Donald. Biko. Henry Holt Magona, Sindiwe. Living, Loving races and backgrounds recount & Company; 3rd Rev ed., 1991. and Lying Awake at Night. their experiences under Apartheid. The biography of Bantu Stephen Interlink Publishing Group; Biko, the South African leader who Reprint ed., 1998. started the Black Consciousness FICTION FOR South African women's lives and movement. Basis for the film Cry YOUNGER READERS Freedom. their stories of injustices.

Adams, Anthony & Ken Durham. ______Slovo, Joe. The Unfinished Writing from South Africa NONFICTION FOR Autobiography of ANC leader (Figures in a Landscape). UK: YOUNGER READERS Joe Slovo. Ocean Press, 1997. Cambridge University Press,

An autobiography of a key figure of 1995. South Africa’s African National Bradely, Catherine. Causes and Writing from South Africa projects a Consequences of the End of Congress. Introduction by Nelson variety of images and perspectives Apartheid. Austin, Tex.: Mandela. on the country and its people. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1996.

______Traces the origins of apartheid, the Case, Dianne. 92 Queens Road. struggle against it, and the changes ADULT FICTION New York: Farrar, Straus and in South African society that Giroux, 1995, c1991. brought about its end. Dangor, Achmat. Kafka's Curse: Living a sheltered life with her

A Novel. Pantheon, 1999. loving family in in the Pascoe, Elaine. South Africa: A novel of unraveling apartheid and 1960s, Kathy comes to realize that Troubled Land. New York: F. secrets revealed. she is considered a lesser person by Watts, 1992. many because of the color of her Examines the history and culture of Freed, Lynn. The Bungalow. skin. 1999. Story Line Press, 1999. South Africa from its earliest European settlers through the Revelation of the quality of life Daly, Niki. Where's Jamela? development of its diamond and among social climbers in a 2004. New York: Farrar, Straus mineral resources and the profoundly racist society on the eve and Giroux, 2004. of troubles.

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(Pre-School-Grade 2) The transition Marriage of the Rain Goddess: A has heard that gangs of children from old to new in this colorful South African Myth. Cambridge, live on the streets. Surviving tale about a little girl's MA: Barefoot Books, 1999. Grade hunger and bitter-cold winter nights moving-away woes that will comfort 2-5. In this tale "inspired by a is hard but learning when to trust in and encourage anyone who has had fragment of a Zulu myth," a the ‘new' South Africa proves even to learn to sleep in a new room. goddess contrives to test the gentle more difficult. mortal she has chosen for her Ferreira, Anton. Zulu Dog. New husband. Naidoo, Beverly. Out of Bounds York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Seven Stories of Conflict and 2002. FICTION FOR TEEN READERS Hope. New York: Harper Collins, In post-apartheid South Africa , a 2003. Seven stories, spanning the Zulu boy keeps secrets from his Corman, Carolyn. Many Stones. time period from 1948 to 2000, family as he cares for an injured Asheville, NC: Front Street, chronicle the experiences of young dog and befriends the daughter of a 2000. people from different races and white farmer. After her sister Laura is murdered ethnic groups as they try to cope in South Africa, Berry and her with the restrictions placed on their Gordon, Shelia. The Middle of estranged father tra vel there to lives by South Africa's apartheid Somewhere: A Story of South participate in the dedication of a laws. Africa. New York: Orchard memorial in her name. Books, 1990. FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES Nine-year-old Rebecca and her Courtenay, Bryce. The Power of family, living in a South African One. Asheville, NC: Front Street, “A Force More Powerful.” A film village for black people, are 2000. by Steve York. 2000. (110 min.) threatened with forced removal to a A white British boy in South Africa bleak, distant development, to during World War II survives an “Amandla! A Revolution in Four make room for a new suburb for abusive boarding school and goes Part Harmony.” A film by Lee whites. on to succeed in life and the boxing Hirsch. 2002. (108 min.) ring, with help from a chicken, a Isadora, Rachel. A South African boxer, a pianist, black African “Come back, Africa.” Directed Night. Greenwillow; 1st ed prisoners, and many others. by Lionel Rogosin. 1960. (95 edition, 1998. min.) Pre -school-Grade 3, picture book. Glass, Linzi Alex. The Year the The inhabitants of South Africa Gypsies Came. A year in twelve- “Cry Freedom.” Directed by divide their activities by day and year old year girl's life in 1960s Richard Attenborough.1987. night, as the animals in Kruger apartheid in Johannesburg, South (157 min.) National Park go about their Africa, in the late 1960s. business while the people of “Drum.” Directed by Zola Johannesburg sleep and then lie Naidoo, Beverley. Chain of Fire. Maseko. 2004. (94 min.) down in the shade as the people New York: Lippincott, 1990. wake up. When the villagers of Bophelong “Forgiveness.” Directed by Ian are forced to leave their houses and Gabriel. 2004. (112 min.) Sisulu, Elinor & Sharon Wilson. resettle in a barren "homeland," The Day Gogo Went to Vote: thirteen-year-old Naledi and her “In My Country” (aka “Country South Africa. Little Brown & Co; younger brother join in a school of My Skull”). Directed by John 1st ed. edition 1996. demonstration and learn that the Boorman. 2004. (104 min.) Thembi and her beloved great- South African government treats Based on the book by Antjie grandmother, who has not left the even children who dissent with Krog. house for many years, go together brutality. Sequel to: Journey to to vote on the momentous day Jo'burg. “Long Night’s Journey into when black South Africans are Day.” Directed by Deborah allowed to vote for the first time. Naidoo, Beverley. Journey to Hoffman and Frances Reid. Jo'burg: A South African Story. 2000. (94 min.) Tadjo, Veronique (ed.). Talking 1986. New York: H. Holt, 2006. Drums: A Selection of Poems Separated from their mother by “Mandela.” Directed by Angus from Africa south of the Sahara. the harsh social and economic Gibson and Jo Menell. 1996. Bloomsbury USA Children's conditions prevalent among blacks (118 min.) Books; 1st US ed. 2004. in South Africa, thirteen-year-old

Grade 5+. In this intriguing and Naledi and her younger brother “Mandela and de Klerk.” unusual anthology, poet and artist make a journey of over 300 Directed by Joseph Sargent. Véronique Tadjo introduces young kilometers to find her in people to a wonderful range of Johannesburg. 1994. (114 min.)

African poems, some traditional, “Memories of Rain.” Directed by some modern. Such powerful poetry Naidoo, Beverly. No Turning Gisela Albrecht and Angela Mai. cannot fail to broaden the Back: A Novel of South Africa. 2004. (185 min.) perception and understanding of the New York: HarperCollins

southern part of this vast continent. Publishers, 1997. Escaping from his violent “Sarafina.” Directed by Darrell Roodt. 1992. (117 min.) Wolfson, Margaret Olivia & stepfather, twelve -year-old Sipho

Clifford Alexander Parms. heads for Johannesburg, where he

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“Yesterday.” Directed by Darrell Roodt. 2006. (95 min.)

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African National Congress site www.anc.org.za/

CIA -The World Factbook: South Africa https://www.cia.gov/cia/public ations/factbook/geos/sf.html International Center for Nonviolent Conflict www.nonviolent-conflict.org/

PBS Frontline companion site to “The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela”: Timeline www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fron tline/shows/mandela/etc/cron. html

Time Magazine article on Mandela www.time.com/time/time100/l eaders/profile/mandela.html

South African History Online www.sahistory.org.za/

UN Human Rights: Historical Images of Apartheid in South Africa www.un.org/av/photo/subjects /apartheid.htm

BBC: The Story of Africa www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/af rica/features/storyofafrica/

Pan-African Movement www.panafricanmovement.org/

Selected Internet Resources on South Africa by the Library of Congress Subject Experts www.loc.gov/rr/international/a med/southafrica/southafrica.ht ml