Simon Hall

Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)

David Pearce

Peter Delius

Shadreck Chirikure

Amanda Esterhuysen

Sekibakiba Lekgoathi

Maanda Maulaudzi

Vele Neluvhalani

Otsile Ntsoane

Karim Sadr

Jeanette Smith

The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape is one of the profound treasures of southern Africa's social and archaeological history, appropriately declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in 2003. Contained within this landscape is indispensable information on precolonial state formation, social hierarchies, architecture of stone-walled towns, mineral processing and intercontinental trade. And yet, the Mapungubwe state rose, towered over its environs, and then declined – long before European colonial incursions. Mapungubwe Reconsidered: A Living Legacy contributes to the body of knowledge about Mapungubwe, straddling such issues as the relationships between humans and the environment, management of mineral endowments and the form and impact of southern Africa's global intercourse in this historical period.

Exploring Beyond the Rise and Decline of the Mapungubwe State

Mapungubwe Reconsidered: A Living Legacy

Ross Anthony

Thaddeus Metz

Kevin Bloom

Daouda Cissé

Martyn Davies

Maxime Lauzon-Lacroix

Garth le Pere

Richard Poplak

Gauhar Raza

Yongjun Zhao

Running like a red thread through this book are the manifestations of Sino-African relations dating back many centuries. In this way, The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy takes forward the work MISTRA conducted on the Mapungubwe society, one of the advanced states that existed in southern Africa some 800 years ago. What makes this research report unique, though, is that the treatment of these issues has been undertaken primarily from an African perspective.

Searching for an Organising Philosophy

Rise and Decline and Rise of China

Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)

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