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Specifically in Africa. I know very little about this topic so I would like some good things I can read or watch to educate myself a bit.
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Jun 28, 2015 03:29
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King Leopold's Ghost is a good start. Edit: Double feature it with Heart of Darkness. More edit: For a movie watch Battle of Algiers.
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Jun 28, 2015 04:37
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire by David Anderson Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns. Helpful as a sequel to King Leopold's Ghost (which is very good!)
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Jun 28, 2015 07:37
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King Leopold's Ghost was good. See also: Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon. It's a little dense but he's a great writer IMO
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Jun 28, 2015 22:25
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The Covenant by James A. Michener is probably the best overview you can get of South African history
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Jun 29, 2015 01:51
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Another vote for King Leopold's Ghost Also Late Victorian Holocausts
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Jun 29, 2015 11:29
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I'm 80% of the way through Martin Meredith's Diamonds, Gold, and War, and though it's a thorough look at South Africa and seems largely impartial, it gets a little boring at times just because there's quite a bit of repetition in white people subjugating other people. (That's history's fault though, not the author's.) Doesn't seem to be pushing any particular agenda. Both Rhodes and Kreuger were unbelievable dickheads.
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Jun 29, 2015 13:41
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Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga and Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee are both fiction, but excellent books set in post-colonial South Africa.
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Jun 29, 2015 18:23
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