Special CollectionsRonald Ballinger Collection On AfricaBOOKSA. Exploration and TravelAutomobile Association of South Africa. Road Atlas and Touring Guide of Southern Africa. Johannesburg: The Association, 1960. Provides rules and regulations of the road, regional and city maps, fishing and wildlife information, and distance tables. Barth, Henry. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. Philadelphia, John E. Potter and Company, 1870. A distillation of the journals of Dr. Heinrich Barth. Details his travels and explorations in North Central Africa between 1849 and 1855. Green, Lawrence George. To the River's End. Cape Town: Howard B. Timmins, 1948. Account of author’s exploration of South Africa his journey to the end of the Orange River, and the interesting people he encountered. Huxley, Elspeth Joscelin Grant. Four Guineas: A Journey through West Africa. London: Reprint Society, 1955. An account of the author’s travels through Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and Nigeria as she sought the “source of human conduct” rather than the source a river. Includes conversations with many Africans. Kingston, William Henry Giles and Charles Rathbone Low. Great African Travellers: From Bruce and Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley. London, New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1890. Lively account of British exploration before and during the Victorian era. Describes tribal life as observed by a succession of renowned British explorers. 100 illustrations. Librairie Pociello et les Ambassades de la Cote d'Ivoire. Cote
d’Ivoire. A pictorial study of traditional villages and chiefs, modern hotels and corporations, travel and tourists, art, agriculture, and industry. Text covers government, history, social aspects and economic expansion. Severin,Timothy. The African Adventure: Four Hundred Years of Exploration in the Dangerous Continent. New York: Dutton, 1973. Chronicles the exploits of H.M Stanley, James Bruce, Dr. David Livingstone, and other European explorers. Discusses their personalities, the dangers they faced, and their reception at home. Walker, Eric Anderson. The Great Trek. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1938. A broad survey of the Great Trek, or migration, that led to the creation of a republican North Africa adjacent to the colonial South Africa. B. HistoryBovill, E. W. The Golden Trade of the Moors. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1958. Examines the Sahara Desert and its ability to enrich, influence and bewilder so many explorers and nomads. Shows the relationship between the great caravan routes and events in North and West Africa. Carter, Gwendolen M. and Patrick O’Meara, eds. Southern Africa: The Continuing Crisis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979. Analyzes historical, political, and social factors that have influenced national policies. Concentrates on struggles between whites and non-whites in nine countries with substantial white settlements. Cockram, Gail-Maryse. South West African Mandate. Cape Town: Juta, 1976. Describes the formation of the first German Colony, then the only nation over which the United Nations claimed the right to exercise jurisdiction. Cubitt, Gerald S. and Johann Richter. South West. Cape Town: C. Struik, 1976. A pictorial study and concise history of South West Africa. Depicts 20th century influences alongside ancient and unchanged customs. De Kiewiet, Cornelius William. A History of South Africa: Social & Economic. London: Oxford University Press, 1941. Outlines the European history of South Africa, including the Boer War, gold mining, and the regulation of industry. Recommends Cape Coloured People, by Dr. J. S. Marais for study of the African and Asiatic populations. Fisher, Godfrey, Sir. Barbary Legend: War, Trade, and Piracy in North Africa, 1415 – 1830. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Looks at English relations with the Mediterranean section of Barbary. Aspects include piracy, slavery, diplomacy, and commerce. Fynn, Henry Francis. The Diary of Henry Francis Fynn. Ed. by James Stuart and D. McK. Malcolm. Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter, 1950. Compiled from original sources. Includes brief account of events in Zulu history immediately preceding Fynn’s life among the Zulu people in Natal. Green, Lawrence George. In the Land of Afternoon. Cape Town: Howard B. Timmins, 1949. Account of life in and around Cape Town during the early 20th century. Includes anecdotes as well as social and economic history. Green, Lawrence George. Lords of the Last Frontier: The Story of South West Africa and its People of All Races. Cape Town: H. B. Timmins, 1952. Describes the life, people, towns, villages, and farms of South West Africa. Emphasizes the region’s complicated history. Hancock, William Keith. I: vol. 1, The Sanguine Years 1970 – 1919; Smuts: vol.2, The Field of Force 1919 – 1950. Cambridge: University Press, 1962-68 Biography. Documents Smut’s years as a student, attorney, general, and statesman wherein he attempted to solve internal racial questions and to heal the feud between the Britons and the Boers. Covers decades as Prime Minister and period of opposition to the government. Humphriss, Deryck. Benoni, Son of My Sorrow: The Social, Political and Economic History of a South African Gold Mining Town. Benoni: Town Council, 1968. Story of a town founded in 1866. Based upon minutes of town council meetings, newspaper accounts and oral histories. Kaula, Edna Mason. The Land and People of Rhodesia. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1967. From the arrival of the British in 1954 to the 1966 declaration of independence. Describes nationalism that swept Rhodesia and the conflicts between whites, Bantus, and the Colonial Office in London. Kruger, Paul. The Memoirs of Paul Kruger: Four Times President of the South African Republic. 2 vol. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1970. Relates events from boyhood through the completion of his fourth presidency. Appendices include transcriptions of important speeches. Luther, Ernest W. Ethiopia Today. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Pr., 1958. A western economist presents historical, cultural, religious and commercial facts about this country in which he lived and worked. Marquard, Leopold. The Peoples and Policies of South Africa.
Five hundred years of South African history. Discusses people, government and administration, the “colour bar,” politics, policies, education, religion, and the four “colonies” of South Africa. Maxwell, Gavin. Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956. New York: Dutton, 1966. Describes the ascent and fall of Madani and T’hami El Glaoui of Morocco. Michael Roberts and A.E.G. Trollip. The South African Opposition, 1939-1945: An Essay in Contemporary History. New York: Longmans, Green, 1947. History of the party politics of South African Nationalism and its relationship to world events during World War II. Examines splits and quarrels among leaders and their failure to build a united front. Millin, Sarah Gertrude Liebson. The South Africans. London: Constable, 1926. Account of the diamond and gold company adventurers and the daily life, politics, and people of South Africa. Nielsen, Waldemar A. African Battleline: American Policy Choices in Southern Africa. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Predicts “race wars and international conflict” within Southern Africa and expresses the need for U.S. foreign policy to respond and adapt. Republic of South Africa. Dept. of Foreign Affairs. South West Africa Survey, 1967. Pretoria: The Dept., 1967. Covers geography, history, population groups, politics, government, economy, education, health, and housing in South West Africa. Walker, Eric Anderson. A History of South Africa. London, New York: Longmans, Green, 1947. Chronological account of the social, economic, and military history of South West Africa, from 610 B.C. to the rise of Nazism in the 1930’s.
C. Politics and GovernmentBallinger, Margaret. From Union to Apartheid: A Trek to Isolation.
Personal account of the author’s twenty-three years in South Africa’s Parliament. Where she was a staunch advocate of liberal ideas and a tireless defender of individual freedom. Butler, Jeffrey. The Liberal Party and the Jameson Raid. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Uses the private papers of influential figures from the Liberal and Unionist parties to examine the Jameson Raid and the improper and inadequate investigation conducted by the South Africa Committee of 1897. Butler, Jeffrey, Robert I Rothberg, and John Adams. The Black Homelands of South Africa: The Political and Economic Development of Bophuthatswana and Kwazulu. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1977. Examination of homelands shows within them sections of non-contiguous land, scant natural resources and minimal economic infrastructures. Questions whether strong leaders can arise. Carter, Gwendolen Margaret. The Politics of Inequality: South Africa Since 1948. London: Thames and Hudson, 1958. Analysis of inequality under the apartheid system. Based in part upon interviews conducted during visits to South Africa in 1948 and in 1952. Carter, Gwendolen Margaret, Thomas Karis, and Newell M. Stultz. South Africa's Transkei: The Politics of Domestic Colonialism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1967. Examines the establishment of the largest tribal reserve, the motives of the government, and the theory of “separate development.” Cole, Ernest. House of Bondage. New York: Random House 1967. Through narrative and photographs, “coloured” journalist presents his view of life under apartheid system from which he fled at age 27. Giniewski, Paul. Bantustans: A Trek towards the Future. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1961. Sharp critique of South African system of apartheid. Views Bantustan homelands policy as a result of apartheid. Kilpin, Ralph Pilkington. Parliamentary Procedure in South Africa: A Short Guide to the Rules and Practice of the Union House of Assembly. 3rd ed. Cape Town: Juta, 1955. Edition revised in response to the changes made during the 1954 session of Parliament and judicial decisions rendered in regard to the “entrenched sections” of the South Africa Act of 1909. Louis, William Roger, ed. Imperialism: The Robinson and Gallagher Controversy. New York: New Viewpoints, 1976. Presentation of a theory of imperialism: “continuity of expansion, but flexibility in forms of political intervention and control depending upon local circumstances,” followed by the critical responses of scholars. Leonard, Charles. Papers on the Political Situation in South Africa, 1885-1895. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. Accounts of problems in South Africa. Selections from the Correspondence of J.X. Merriman. Ed. by Phyllis Lewson. 2 vol. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1960-69. Documents Merriman’s activities as a businessman and farmer, as well as his 47 years as a member of Parliament representing Afrikaaner farmers. Neame, Lawrence Elwin. Some South African Politicians, with 16 Drawings by "Quip." Cape Town, South Africa: Maskew Miller, Ltd., [1929]. Character sketches of 19th and 20th century politicians. Perceptive and balanced; accounts accompanied by gentle caricatures. Potter, Elaine. The Press as Opposition: The Political Role of South African Newspapers. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975. Africans under Apartheid were systematically excluded from the political system. However, freedom of the press survived, and newspapers became very influential. The author examines the financial structure of the press, its readership, and its links to the South African government. Sachs, Albie. The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. The diary of a young South African attorney who spent 168 days in solitary confinement for opposing apartheid laws. South Africa. Commission of Enquiry into South West African Affairs. Verslag van die Kommissie van Ondersoek na Aangeleenthede van Suidwes – Afrika, 1962-1963 = Report of the Commission of Enquiry into South West African Affairs, 1962-1963. [Capetown?] Republiek van Suid-Afrika, [1964]. Outlines the proposed development of South West Africa. Left hand page is in Afrikaans, right hand is in English. _____. Decisions by the Government on the Recommendations of the Commission of Enquiry into South West African Affairs. Pretoria, Cape Town: Cape & Transvaal Printers, Cape Town, 1964. Provides reasons for decisions made by Commission about future development. Thompson, Leonard and Jeffrey Butler, eds. Change in Contemporary
South Africa. Scholars, gathered at Yale in 1974, deliberate the potential for change in this region of remarkable stability and adaptability for which fundamental social transformation has long been demanded. Van Jaarsveld, Floris Albertus. The Awakening of Afrikaner Nationalism, 1868-1881. New York: Humanities Press, 1961. Analyzes the development of nationalism among the Afrikaans-speaking people of South Africa as a response to British imperialist policies. Vandenbosch, Amry. South Africa and the World: The Foreign Policy of Apartheid. [Lexington] University Press of Kentucky [1970]. Systematic study of South Africa’s foreign policy, an international issue because of race relations and colonialism. Critical of apartheid but aware of difficulties facing white South Africans. D. EconomicsCope, R. K. Comrade Bill: The Life and Times of W. H. Andrews, Workers’ Leader. Cape Town: Stewart Printing Co., [1944?]. Biography of a working class leader. Based on interviews, newspaper files, police and court records, and the archives of trade unions and workers’ political organizations. De Kiewiet, Cornelius William. The Imperial Factor in South Africa: A Study in Politics and Economics. Cambridge: The University Pr., 1937. Examination of British policy in light of history. Concludes that a close economic association rather than racial conflict is the most distinctive quality of the relationship. Gregory, Theodor Emanuel. Ernest Oppenheimer and the Economic Development of Southern Africa. Cape Town, New York: Oxford University Pr., 1962. The life and career of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer who rose from the position of junior clerk to head of the corporation at the pinnacle of the diamond and gold mining industries. United Nations. Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs. Economic Survey of Africa since 1950. New York: United Nations, 1959. Analyzes development in terms of structure, growth trends, external trade, and capital formation. Extensive tables.
E. Social Life and CustomsGray, Richard. The Two Nations: Aspects of the Development of Race Relations in the Rhodesias and Nyasaland. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1960. Covers the period between the two world wars, describes the later effects of industrialization and urbanization, and analyzes the growth and development of political and social awareness. Green, Lawrence George. Beyond the City Lights: The Story of the Western Province. Cape Town: H. Timmins, 1957. Town and farm life in the Western Province of South Africa. Junod, Henri Alexandre. The Life of a South African Tribe: I, Social Life; II, Mental Life. 2 vol. New Hyde Park, N Y: University Books [1962]. Protestant Missionary describes the social life and customs, organization, agriculture, art and religion of the Thonga Tribe. F. Language and LiteratureAwoonor, Kofi. Night of My Blood. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. Poetry in the medium of traditional Ewe song laments the decline of Africa and the abandonment of traditional values. Carim, Enver. The Golden City. New York: Grove Press, 1970. A novel about life in South Africa from the perspective of the Indian, the Cape “coloured,” and the black African. Gerard, Albert S., Special Editor. Black Africa: Review of National Literatures. Volume II, Number II. Fall 1971. Jamaica, NY: St. John's University Press, c1972. A compilation of essays that focus on nationalism in literature. Looks also at the influence of language, and the choice between European and native. Jablow, Alta, transl. Gassire's Lute: A West African Epic. New York: E.P. Dutton, c1971. A Sudanese epic poem on the fall of the Wagadu city-state. Tells of a warrior son who renounces his noble birth to become the first bard of his tribe. Kunene, Mazisi. Zulu Poems. New York: Africana Publishing, c1970. Poems in the style of Zulu oral tradition, expressing the consciousness of the people and preserving their history and communal identity. Makward, E. and L. Lacy. Contemporary African Literature. New York: Random House, c1972. Anthology of tales, legends, short stories, excerpts from novels, poetry, drama, and non-fiction. Nagenda, Musa. Dogs of Fear: A Story of Modern Africa. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1972. A novel for young readers. A father, concerned that his European educated son has become “womanly,” compels him to complete a “rite of manhood.” Okai, John. The Oath of the Fontomfrom and Other Poems. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1971. Poetical exploration of the experience of being black in a white world. Trask, Willard R., ed. Classic Black African Poems. New York: Eakins Press, c1971. Collection of “unwritten songs” from obscure tribes. Expresses basic emotions with a “bold directness reverent of human and animal life.” Uys, Sannie. Vroue. Kaapstad, South Africa: Unie-Volkspers, Bpk., 1948 Novel written in Afrikaans. Vilakazi, Benedict Wallet. Zulu Horizons: The Vilakazi Poems. Translated by D. McK. Malcolm and Florence Louie Friedman. Cape Town: H. Timmins, 1962. Poetry that embodies the Zulu way of life and its perspective on life, race and the world at large. Includes a brief biography of the poet. G. MiscellaneousBarnard, Cecil. The Ivory Trail. Cape Town: H.B. Timmins, 1954. The life and times of Bvenkenya, (S.C. Bernard), “the King of the Ivory Poachers.” Bayliss, John F. Black Slave Narratives. New York: Macmillan. London: Collier-Macmillan, c1970. Twenty accounts of life under slavery in America. Narrators include Gustavus Vassa, Venture Smith, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman. Betts, Raymond F. Assimilation and Association in French Colonial Theory, 1890-1914. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. A look at French policy that preserved indigenous economic and cultural institutions and encouraged economic cooperation. Brown, Leslie. The Life of the African Plains. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1972. General exploration of the ecology of the savannas. Details what happens during the course of a year and shows how grazing animals survive. De Bosdari, C. Cape Dutch Houses and Farms: Their Architecture and History, Together with a Note on the Role of Cecil John Rhodes in Their Preservation. Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1953. Describes 200 old houses and includes photographs, line drawings, and road maps. Looks at the effect of early history on Cape architecture. Havinga, J.F.E. et al. History for Std. VI in Accordance with the New Differentiated Syllabus for Transvaal Schools. Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel Bpk. [1958?]. Syllabus for teaching general and South African history in grammar schools. Patterson, John Henry. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures. London: Macmillan, 1907. Account of the author’s two years spent hunting in Africa. Petrie, William Matthew Flinders. With chapter by F. Ll. Griffith. The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty. 2vol. London, Boston: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900-1901. An account of the excavation of the royal tombs of Abydos, first Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Contains photographs of tomb artifacts, drawings of seals, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Wrogemann, Nan. Cheetah under the Sun. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1975. An account of the enduring relationship between mankind and the cheetah. PAMPHLETSBarclays Bank Series – Countries Basutoland, Bechuanaland & Swaziland SP COLL DT782 .B24 1962 RBAfrica. Ghana SP COLL HC1060 .G422 1962 RBAfrica. SP COLL HC1060 .G422 1964 RBAfrica. Kenya SP COLL HC865 .K46 1964 RBAfrica. Libya SP COLL HC825 .L5 1961 RBAfrica. Nigeria SP COLL HC1055 .N47 1963 RBAfrica. Nyasaland SP COLL HC935 .N9 1964 RBAfrica. 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