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Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela’s 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africa’s apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Crisis (March 1960)
Chapter 2 The Making of the Crisis (The Postwar Era)
Chapter 3 Emergency Mobilization (April 1960 to Early 1961)
Chapter 4 Persuasion (June 1961 to August 1961)
Chapter 5 Mandela’s Bookcase (1961)
Chapter 6 Spear (Late 1961)
Chapter 7 Dingane’s Day (December 1961 to Early July 1962)
Chapter 8 Interruption (Mid-1962)
Chapter 9 Big Country (Later 1962)
Chapter 10 Operation Mayibuye (November 1962 to June 1963)
Chapter 11 In Pieces (Mid-1963 to Mid-1964)
Chapter 12 Revolution Displaced (1963/4 Onward)
Appendix A Missing Documents Mentioned in This Book
Appendix B Mandela, Communist (Nationalist)
Notes
Sources
Index
About the author
Paul S. Landau is a professor of history at the University of Maryland at College Park and a fellow of the History Centre of the University of Johannesburg. His two previous books, The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender, and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom (1995) and Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948 (2010), were both finalists for the African Studies Association Herskovits Prize. Landau is interested in visual culture, religion, and popular politics. He lives with his family in Washington, DC.
Summary
Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela’s 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africa’s apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.
