A Note on Style  xi

Acknowledgments  xiii

Abbreviations  xv

Introduction  1

I. African Worlds, African Voices  9

II. Colonial Settlement, Slavery, and Peonage  33

III. Frontiers  87

IV. All That Glitters  123

V. United and Divided  197

VI. Apartheid and the Struggle for Freedom  279

VII. From Soweto to Liberation  357

VIII. Transitions and Reconiliations  473

Glossary  583

Suggestions for Further Reading  585

Acknowledgments of Copyrights and Sources  591

Index  599

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