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Article: King Solomon's mines revisited: Western interests and the burdened history of Southern Africa.
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- November 17, 1986
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King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa
The solid, scholarly, yet still spiritedhistory by political sociologist William Minter offers a useful background for understanding the current African morass. King Solomon's Mines Revisited traces the history of Southern Africa beginning with the discovery of gold and diamonds in the 1860s, the battles between the British, the Boers and the (equally imperialistic) Zulus, and the eventual rather absent-minded emergence of English colonialism. The author ably chronicles the gradual rise of pass laws and "reserves" in South Africa, the use of forced labor in Portuguese ...