Kevin Shillington

Examines the beginning of the independence movement in Africa and the results once freedom was achieved.

Settlement of the lands of the Southern Tswana, incorporated since 1977 into the sovereign republic of Bophuthatswana, formed from former homelands in the Orange Free State, Transvaal and northern Cape Province, South Africa. The scope of the study is the Tlhaping, Rolong and Tlharo chieftaincies that lived between the Vaal and Molopo rivers, who were colonized as the Crown Colonies of Griqualand West, 1871-1880 and British Bechuanaland, 1885-1895, and annexed afterwards to Cape Colony. The Rolong living in present-day Botswana are excluded from the study.

"A long-overdue work for students and interested readers of African history, this set is the first to cover the entire continent since UNESCO's General History of Africa appeared in the 1980s. Nearly 1,100 entries cover historical, political, cultural, economic, linguistic, and anthropological topics. Lengthy historiographical surveys, maps of each of the modern states as well as historically important regions (such as the Songhay Empire), and a substantial number of contributions from African scholars make this source a fine addition to any reference collection."--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005.