Ordinary Level African History; Reading List and Sources

Compiled by Brian Maregedze, 16.02.2019.

People and Power (Andre Proctor and Ian Phimister (1991)

Chapters 1, 2 and 3
 From hunting and gathering to farming
 Developed farming societies: cattle, lineages and chiefdoms
 States and tribute
Garlake, P., The Painted Caves, Modus Publications, Harare, 1989
Garlake, P. and Proctor, A., People Making History, Book 1, Zimbabwe Publishing House, Harare,
1985.
Hall, M., The Changing Past: Farmers, Kings and Traders in Southern Africa: 200-1860, David
Philip, Cape Town, 1987.
Chapter 4
 The Mutapa State
Brach, D., The Shona and Zimbabwe 900-1850, Mambo Press, Gweru, 1984.
Garlake and Proctor, op. cit.
Hall, op. cit.
Lan, D., Guns and Rain: Guerillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Publishing
House, Harare, 1985.
Mudenge, S. I., A Political History of Munhumutapa, Zimbabwe Publishing House, Harare, 1988.
Chapter 5
 The Rozvi state
Beach, op. cit.
Garlake and Proctor, op. cit.
Chapter 6
 The Zulu state
Beach, D., War and Politics in Zimbabwe: 1840-1900, Mambo Press, Gweru, 1986.
Cobbing, J., “The Ndebele under the Khumalos: 1820-1896”, (unpublished Ph.D. thesis),
University of Lancaster, 1976.
Garlake and Proctor, op. cit.
Peires, J. (ed.), Before and after Shaka, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Grahams
town, 1983.
Chapter 7
 The Ndebele State
Peires op. cit.
Robinson, D. and Smith, D., Sources of the African Past, Heinemann Educational Books, London,
1979.
Webb, C. and Wright, J. (eds), The James Stuart Archive of Recorded Oral Evidence Relating to
the Zulu and Neigbouring Peoples, University of Natal Press, Durban, 1976.
NB: A very stimulating debate has recently developed around the question of state formation and
violence in Southern Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Very little of it has been
published, but we have drawn heavily on the work of Julian Cobbing and Carolyn Hamilton for
this chapter.
Chapter 8
 Merchant capitalism and the societies of central Africa
Beach, The Shona People and Zimbabwe, op. cit.
Beach, War and Politics in Zimbabwe, op. cit.
Garlake and Proctor, op. cit.
Hall, op. cit.
Mudenge, op. cit.
Chapter 9
Merchant capital in South Africa
Elphick, R., Khoi khoi and the Founding of White South Africa, Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1985.
Marks, S. and Atmore, A. (eds.), Economy and Society in Pre-industrial South Africa, Longman,
Harlow, 1980.
Parsons, N., A New History of Southern Africa, College Press, Harare, 1984.
Peires, J., The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of
1856-7, Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1989.
Shillington, K., The Colonization of the Southern Tswana, Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1985.
Chapter 10
 The foundation of the industrial capitalism
Composite of all area-specific books listed in chapters 11-15, plus:
Hobsbawn, E., The Age of Capital, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1975.
Hobsbawn, E., The Age of Revolution, Sphere Books, London, 1977.
Rude, G., Ideology and Popular Protest, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1980.
Chapter 11
 Britain: the world’s first industrial capitalism
Hobsbawn, E., Industry and Empire, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1969.
Morton, A. L., A People’s History of England, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1979.
Postgate, R.W., Revolution from 1789-1906, Grant Richards, London, 1920.
Hobsbawn, E. and Rude, G., Captain Swing, Norton, New York, 1975.
Tames, R., Economy and Society in 19th Century Britain, Allen and Unwin, London, 1972.
Thompson, L.P., The Making of the English Working Class, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth,
1963.
Chapter 12
 Industrialization in Germany
Breach, R. W., Documents and Descriptions in European History: 1815-1939, Oxford University
Press, London, 1972.
Carr, W., A History of Germany, Edward Arnold, London, 1979.
Moore, B., The Social Origins of Dictatorship, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1977.
Chapter 13
 The United States: the greatest industrial power of them all
Brown, D., Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, Barrie and Jenkins, London, 1970.
Huberman, L., We the People, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1970.
Morrison, Commager and Lenchtenburg, A Concise History of the USA, Oxford University Press,
Oxford, 1977.
Zinn, H., A People’s History of the United States, Harper Colophon, New York, 1980.
Chapter 14
 Industrialization and imperialism in Japan
Barr, P., Foreign Devils, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1970.
Tames, R., Japan in the 20th Century, Batsford, London, 1981.
Williams, B., Modern Japan, Longman, London, 1969.
Chapter 15
 Industrialization in South Africa
Bozzoli, B. (ed.), Labour, Townships and Protest, Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1979.
Callinicos, L., Working Life, Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1987.
Callinicos, L., Gold and Workers, Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1986.
Garlake and Proctor, op. cit.
Guy, J., The Destruction of the Zulu Kingdom, Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1989.
Kallaway, P. and Pearson, P., Johannesburg: Images and Continuities, Ravan Press,
Johannesburg, 1986.
Marks, S., and Rathbone, R., Industrialization and Social Change in South Africa, Longman,
Harlow, 1982.
Parsons, op. cit.
Roux, E., Time Longer than Rope, University of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin, 1969.
Shillington, op. cit.
Chapter 16
 Merchant capital in West Africa
Fage, J. and Verity, M., An Atlas of African History, Edward Arnold, London, 1978.
Freund, W., The Making of Contemporary Africa, Macmillan, London, 1973.
Killingray, D., A Plague of Europeans, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1970.
Forbes Munro, J., Africa and the International Economy: 1800-1960, Dent, London, 1976.
Forbes Munro, J., Britain in Tropical Africa: 1800-1960, Macmillan, London, 1984.
Chapter 17
 The partition of Africa
Birmingham, D. and Martin, P. (eds.), A History of Central Africa (Vol. 2), Longman, London,
1983.
Freund, op. cit.
Hallet, R., Africa Since 1875, Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1975.
Hopkins, A., An Economic History of West Africa, Longman, London, 1989.
Chapter 18
 Risings against colonial rule
Drechsler, H., Let us Die Fighting, Zed Books, London, 1980.
SWAPO, Namibia in History, Zed Books, London, 1989.
SWAPO, To be Born a Nation, Zed Books, London, 1981.
Illife, J., A Modern History of Tanganyika, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979.
Chapters 19 and 20
 Officials, merchants and peasants: the peasant-based colonial economies of
the Gold Coast and the Belgian Congo
 Settlers and workers: the settler colonies of Algeria and Kenya.
Amin, S, The Maghreb in the Modern World, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1970.
Curtin, P., African History, Longman, Harlow, 1978.
Leys, C., Underdevelopment in Kenya, Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1975.
Swainson, N., The Development of Corporate Capitalism in Kenya, 1918-1977, Heinemann,
Oxford, 1980.
Van Zwaneberg, R., Colonial Capitalism and Labour in Kenya: 1919-39, East African Literature
Bureau, Kampala, 1975.
Chapter 21
 The Coming of Colonialism, 1890-5
Keppel-Jones, A., Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe: 1884-1902,
University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, 1983.
Phimister, I., An Economic and Social History of Zimbabwe, 1890-1948: Capital Accumulation
and Class Struggle, Longman, Harlow, 1988.
Samkange, S., Origins of Rhodesia, Heinemann, London, 1968.
Chapter 22
 Umvukela/Chimurenga: the risings of 1896-7
Beach, War and Politics in Zimbabwe, op. cit.
Phimister, op. cit.
Ranger, T. O., Revolt in Southern Rhodesia, Heinemann, London, 1967.
Chapter 23
 Exploitation and expropriation
Palmer, R., Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia, Heinemann Education Books, London,
1977.
Phimister, op. cit.
Van Onselen, C., Chibharo: African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1933, Ravan Press,
Johannesburg, 1980.
Chapter 24
 Hidden struggles and early resistance
Phimister, op. cit.
Ranger, T., The African Voice in Southern Rhodesia, Heinemann Educational Books, London,
1970.
Vambe, L., An ill-fated People, Heinemann, London, 1972.
Van Onselen, op. cit.
Chapter 25
 Industrialization and the growth of mass nationalism
Bhebe, N., Benjamin Burombo, College Press, Harare, 1990.
Dumbutshen, E., Zimbabwe Tragedy, East African Publishing House, Nairobi, 1975.
Shamuyarira, N., Crisis in Rhodesia, Andre Deutsch, London, 1965.
Chapter 26
 Armed struggle and the coming of Independence
Banana, C. (ed.), Turmoil and Tenacity, Zimbabwe 1890-1990, College Press, Harare, 1990.
Raeburn, M., Black Fire, Julian Friedmann, London, 1978.
Ranger, T. Peasant Consciousness and Guerilla War in Zimbabwe, James Currey, London, 1985.
Staunton, C. (ed.), Mothers of the Revolution, Boabab Books, Harare, 1990.
Stoneman, C (ed.), Zimbabwe’s Prospects, Macmillan, London, 1988.