Bridge over Blood River: The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners - Couverture rigide

Norman, Kajsa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1849046816 ISBN 13 : 9781849046817

Editeur : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? Bridge Over Blood River s haunting and subversive evocation of South Africa s racial politics provides some unsettling answers. Along the Orange River in South Africa, there lies the breakaway republic of Orania, where a thousand Afrikaners are working to construct a white-African utopia. Citing their desire to preserve their language and traditions, they have sequestered themselves in an isolated part of the arid Karoo region. Here, they can still dictate the rules and create a homeland with its own flag, currency and ideology. Kajsa Norman traces the war for control of South Africa, its people, and its history, from the Battle of Blood River in 1838, through the brutality of apartheid, to Orania today. Weaving between the past and the present, Bridge Over Blood River highlights how years of fear, nationalism, and social engineering have left the modern Afrikaner struggling for identity and relevance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kajsa Norman is a London-based investigative journalist and author focused on dictatorships and conflict zones. She has previously published books on Cuba, Zimbabwe, and Venezuela. She has also served as a press and information officer for the Swedish Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Mali.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849046816
• ISBN 13: 9781849046817
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 208
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