Rachel King

Fred Morton

Amanda Esterhuysen

Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi

Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

Muchaparara Musemwa

Cynthia Kros

Helen Ludlow

Geoffrey Blundell

Jan Boeyens

Lize Kriel

Grant McNulty

Hlonipha Mokoena

Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu

Himal Ramji

Justine Wintjes

Archives of Times Past' explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa's time before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in southern Africa and elsewhere, focusing on the question: 'How do we know, or think we know, what happened in the times before European colonialism?'0The essays by well-known historians, archaeologists and researchers engage these questions from a range of perspectives and in illuminating ways. Written from personal experience, they capture how these experts encountered their archives of knowledge beyond the textbook.0The essays are written at a time when public discussion about the history of southern Africa before the colonial era is taking place more openly than at any other time in the last hundred years They will appeal to students, academics, educationists, teachers, archivists, and heritage, museum practitioners and the general public.

Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History

Archives of Times Past

Goolam Vahed

Arianna Lissoni

Nnamdi Elleh

Ali Khangela Hlongwane

Hilton Judin

Faeeza Ballim

Sally Gaule

Kelly Gillespie

Tara Weber

Eric Itzkin

Roshan Dadoo

Yasmin Mayat

Brendan Hart

Temba Middelmann

Barbara Morovich

Pauline Guinard

This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa’s oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present

The persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid

Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins

Muchaparara Musemwa

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