Terrorist Album - Apartheids Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police

Historian and journalist Jacob Dlamini investigates one of three surviving copies of the "terrorist album," a rogue's gallery of apartheid's political enemies collected over decades by South Africa's security police. From the photos emerges the afterlife of apartheid, as Dlamini tells the story of former insurgents, collaborators, and police.

About the author

Jacob Dlamini is the author of Native Nostalgia and Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, winner of the Alan Paton Award. He is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and was previously political editor of Business Day in South Africa. Dlamini grew up under apartheid in a township outside Johannesburg.

Summary

Historian and journalist Jacob Dlamini investigates one of three surviving copies of the “terrorist album,” a rogue’s gallery of apartheid’s political enemies collected over decades by South Africa’s security police. From the photos emerges the afterlife of apartheid, as Dlamini tells the story of former insurgents, collaborators, and police.

Product details

• Authors: Jacob Dlamini, Dlamini Jacob
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780674916555
• ISBN: 978-0-674-91655-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, Republic of South Africa, African History, Human rights, civil rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance