I recently finished reading "A Chronicle of Modern Sunlight" and found it to be extremely informative. As a student of Rhodesian history and of Southern African history as a whole, I found the book to be a wonderful guide to what happened to the people of Rhodesia. I highly recommend this book. Anyone who cares about the story of Rhodesia both pre and post 1980 will absolutely love the book.

If your interested in west African Cichlids this book is a must. Includes detailed pictures of Pelvicachromis, Nanochromis, and many more species, with both male and female identified. Also includes short description of species habitat and water parameters. This book makes identification easy.

Mamdani succeeds in breaking the colonial political system into pieces drawing the distinction between urban direct rule which spoke the language of civil society and civil rights, and rural indirect rule, which spoke of community and culture and describes them as different faces of the bifurcated colonial state. This bifurcated system dissipated with Independence revealing the need of a new agenda for the newly created state. The first duty of the state was to bring together the different stratums in the society for the reconstruction of a both ethnical and political identity. Democracy was the prescribed solution to react against apartheid and a tribalized native society. Mamdani's claims that whereas democratization brought winds that will remove erstwhile privileges inherited from a colonial, white dominated central power; it failed to conquer the system that kept the peasants under the hold of a tribal authorit

Hello, my name is Martin Kindl. Welcome to my review. I have had an interest in Africa for quite some time now, and this book has really added to my knowledge of this remarkable country. Although some readers may be "turned off" by reading a book of essays from a critical perspective, I can assure you that the Comaroffs have compiled an interested, engaging and riveting read from the start.

Everyone knows now that Africa is the birthplace of mankind; but not everyone knows about what has happened on this "Dark Continent" since then. I highly recommend this book to everybody, because we all have roots in Africa, and we all owe it to ourselves to learn more about its place in contemporary life.

I wholehartedly recommend this book as it is a thorough introduction that everyone can appreciate. Next to the Book of Genesis, it should be recommended reading for all of mankind.

Molefi Asante has done it again with this book. This book is a good introduction to Africa. He gives the main points of each area. He gives questions to make you think about what you've read. The pictures and the maps area absolutely beautiful. This is a book that you should have in your library. If you don't then it's your loss!

I read The Winter Prince six or seven years ago and I didn't know a continuation was in the works until a few months ago. Which is probably a good thing considering how annoyingly slowly those months passed. It was not the sort of book you forget.

I read A Coalition of Lions in a day. It's a fast read and actually a good deal lighter than The Winter Prince, though that's not saying much. Though the books follow many of the same characters, the narrators are different and I thought COL was not nearly as intense. The history, descriptions, and imagery in this book were wonderful. There are some clever connections, excellent lines, and memorable moments as well.

While it deserves every one of those five stars, I couldn't conceive of saying it is as good as The Winter Prince. But this in a sort of Joseph Heller sort of way. When people tell him he never wrote anything better than Catch-22, he responds with "Who has?" My favorite part was Medraut hitting the target (well, no not really but that was great). He didn't get many lines, but I would (and did!) wait six years for him, too. Speaking of waiting, let's hope the next book is on its way to the printers.

At what point can it be said that a state has collapsed? This volume, after the editor Zartman's inieial essay on the nature and causes of state collapse, proivides individual essays by other specialists that examine the nature of state collapse in different countries. Mist of these, given the nature of the phenomenon uner examination, are in Africa. There are remarkaple similarities in the almost mechanical processes that take place when a state is about to fall into anarchy. This is an excvellent volume to understand Somalia, Algeria, Congo Chad and others. It also attempts to examine the signs of imminent collapse. This volume is indispensable , i find, despite its mid 90's publication in understanding what happened in Afghanistan if only by conjecture. The coming Anarchy, and The Ends of the Earth by Robert Kaplan are also excellent complementary volumes even if they are not written in the academic tomne of the Zaertman volume.

Bosman is THE literary genius of South Africa. By turns, funny, ironic, sad and engry, he reveals all the foibles of South African rural Afrikaner life in the first half of the 20th century. If you can read only one South African writer, make it Bosman, you will be well rewarded.
The challenge is that Bosman is so little known outside South Africa, yet he remains perpetually in print in South Africa.

I grew up with Bosman on the family bookshelf, and launched into his tales of South African life at an early age - my family have teethed on his stories as he attended the same high school as my father, which therefore makes him almost part of the family I guess!

He gives a unique insight into the humour and pathos which characterised that country in the days before the second World War. Although he is best known for his short stories and poems of South African life, there are two of his book-length stories included in this Collection - Mafeking Road (perhaps my most favourite) and Cold Stone Jug (from his time spent in jail).

Some of the short stories are depressingly sad, but no matter whether they are sad or filled with humour - they do give you a realistic impression of what life was like in the years of apartheid in which he lived. Bosman has not always been popular with his fellow countrymen, mainly, I think, because of his ability to scratch below the veneer of their life-surface and expose their soft uderbelly. He pokes his finger with a toungue-in-cheek look at South African (mainly Afrikaans) life and relationships between the different colour and ethnic groups.

I was sad to learn that this book is out of print, as my copy is badly in need of replacing now ... might be worth a re-think by the publishers, perhaps!

i couldn't put it down, even after i started it the fourth time, get it, you won't regret it

Colors of Africa was Jim Kilgo's last book, he died from his cancer before publication. It is, perhaps, his best book and is truly a good and authoritative book. It is written in his inimitative style and soulds just as through he was talking to you. A great epitaph to a great writer.
R.L. Humphries