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Development and Differentiation

Sub-Saharan Africa

by  |  on January 22nd, 2009  |  0 comments

I want to take just a minute to promote my friend Mark Nyandoro's new book on Zimbabwe. Mark is a Zimbabwean currently living in South Africa where he is an academic on a fellowship at the University of the North West. Development and Differentiation: The Case of TILDOR/ARDA Irrigation Activities in Sanyata (Zimbabwe), 1939-2000 is an important contribution to the literature on water management and the confluence of environmental history and politics in not only Zimbabwe but southern Africa. It may be priced out of the range of most casual readers, but please recommend it to your local university library.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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