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Freedom rising / James North.
LIBRA DT763 .N67 1985
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- North, James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Guerrillas.
- South Africa--Race relations.
- South Africa.
- Race relations.
- National liberation movements--South Africa.
- National liberation movements.
- Civil rights--South Africa.
- Civil rights.
- Guerrillas--South Africa.
- Human rights--South Africa.
- Human rights.
- Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1979-1980.
- Zimbabwe.
- Politics and government.
- Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1980-.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, [1985]
- Summary:
- Relates the author's four and a half year journey through southern Africa and his interviews with many people of all colors and backgrounds.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Part one: the land of apartheid. Winter inside South Africa ; City of darkness ; City of gold ; Gandhi's heirs ; The Afrikaner paradox ; Writers under apartheid ; Sports: the Kaizer Chiefs ; Heroes underground ; Bantustans: the archipelago of misery ; Namibia: the last colony
- Part two: from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. The year of the people's storm ; The land of our fathers ; Independence and reconciliation
- Part three: South Africa's long walk to freedom. Peaceful defiance fails ; The movement turns to fighting ; Hope rising.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1986
- ISBN:
- 0025899406
- 9780025899407
- OCLC:
- 11260313
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