Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1 (2017)

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Special JSAS Conference Issue: Southern Africa beyond the West: The Transnational Connections of Southern African Liberation Movements

Editorial

Editorial
The Transnational Histories of Southern African Liberation Movements: An Introduction
Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor & Blessing-Miles Tendi
Pages: 1-12
Published online: 26 Jan 2017
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African Uses of the Cold War

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Global Ideologies, Local Politics: The Cold War as Seen from Central Angola
Justin Pearce
Pages: 13-27
Published online: 12 Jan 2017
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‘Makers of Bonds and Ties’: Transnational Socialisation and National Liberation in Mozambique
Daniel Kaiser
Pages: 29-48
Published online: 26 Jan 2017
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African Soldiers in the USSR: Oral Histories of ZAPU Intelligence Cadres’ Soviet Training, 1964–1979
Jocelyn Alexander & JoAnn McGregor
Pages: 49-66
Published online: 12 Jan 2017
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African Diplomacy and International Connections

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Mediators of Liberation: Eastern-Bloc Officials, Mozambican Diplomacy and the Origins of Soviet Support for Frelimo, 1958–1965
Natalia Telepneva
Pages: 67-81
Published online: 12 Jan 2017
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ZANU’s External Networks 1963–1979: An Appraisal
Gerald Chikozho Mazarire
Pages: 83-106
Published online: 26 Jan 2017
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Front Line Diplomats: African Diplomatic Representations of the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front, 1976–1978
Timothy Scarnecchia
Pages: 107-124
Published online: 12 Jan 2017
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Hosts, Allies and Enemies on the African Front Line

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Education in Exile: International Scholarships, Cold War Politics, and Conflicts among SWAPO Members in Tanzania, 1961–1968
Christian A. Williams
Pages: 125-141
Published online: 12 Jan 2017
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Transnationalism, Contingency and Loyalty in African Liberation Armies: The Case of ZANU’s 1974–1975 Nhari Mutiny
Blessing-Miles Tendi
Pages: 143-159
Published online: 13 Jan 2017
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Nationalism and Exile in an Age of Solidarity: Frelimo–ZANU Relations in Mozambique (1975–1980)
Clinarete Victoria Luis Munguambe
Pages: 161-178
Published online: 12 Jan 2017
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‘Past History Has Not Been Forgotten’: The ANC/ZAPU Alliance – the Second Phase, 1978–1980
Hugh Macmillan
Pages: 179-193
Published online: 13 Jan 2017
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Apartheid’s Transnational Soldiers: The Case of Black Namibian Soldiers in South Africa’s Former Security Forces
Lennart Bolliger
Pages: 195-214
Published online: 13 Jan 2017
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Participant Papers: Making and Remembering Transnational Histories

Relations between ZAPU and the USSR, 1960s–1970s: A Personal View
Dumiso Dabengwa
Pages: 215-223
Published online: 26 Jan 2017
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Moscow and Zimbabwe’s Liberation
Vladimir Shubin
Pages: 225-233
Published online: 17 Jan 2017
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Nation-Building and the State in Southern African Liberation Movements
Roger Southall, Liberation Movements in Power: Party and State in Southern Africa (Woodbridge and Pietermaritzburg, James Currey and University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2016 [2013]), xv + 384 pp., £45.00, hardback, ISBN 978-84701-066-7; £19.99, paperback, ISBN 978-1-84701-134-3; £19.99, e-book, ISBN 978-1-84701-748-3.
Henning Melber
Pages: 235-236
Published online: 13 Jan 2017
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East Germany and the Politics of Education in Mozambique
Tanja R. Müller, Legacies of Socialist Solidarity: East Germany in Mozambique (New York and London, Lexington Books, 2014), 232 pp., £60.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-7391-7942-0; £60.00, e-book, ISBN 978-0-7391-7943-7.
Victor Igreja
Pages: 237-238
Published online: 12 Jan 2017
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The Burden of History: Namibia and Germany from Colonialism to Postcolonialism
Reinhart Kössler, Namibia and Germany: Negotiating the Past (Windoek and Münster, UNAM Press and Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag, 2015), xiii + 378 pp., paperback, €39.90, ISBN 978-99916-42-09-3.
Heike Becker
Pages: 238-239
Published online: 13 Jan 2017
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The Presence of History in Post-Apartheid South Africa
John S. Saul and Patrick Bond, South Africa – The Present as History: From Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana (Woodbridge, James Currey, 2014), 312pp., £40.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-84701-092-6; £19.99, paperback, ISBN 978-1-84701-135-0; £19.99, e-book, ISBN 978-1-84701-292-1.
Heinz Klug
Pages: 240-241
Published online: 13 Jan 2017
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‘Lifestyle’ British Migrants to South Africa
Daniel Conway and Pauline Leonard, Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), viii + 210 pp., hardback, ISBN 978-0-230-34657-4; paperback, ISBN 978-1-349-34479-6; e-book, ISBN 978-137-31913-5.
Pnina Werbner
Pages: 241-242
Published online: 11 Jan 2017
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Being ‘Anglo-Africans’ in British Africa
Christopher J. Lee, Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2014), xviii + 346 pp., 51 illus., US$99.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8223-5713-1; US$27.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-5725-4; e-book, ISBN 978-0-8223-7637-8.
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Pages: 242-243
Published online: 13 Jan 2017
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