Kruger National Park (KNP) occupies a central place in South Africa’s past and present as a national asset and international tourist destination. Jacob Dlamini’s Safari Nation is a black history of the park that stresses the presence and mobility of African, Indian, and Coloured South Africans in the face of laws that sought to curtail independent movement and racially segregate South Africa. By focusing on social and political relations within the park beyond themes of absence and constraint, Dlamini brings to the fore ways that black South Africans “gave meaning to their lives”—living with rather than under colonialism and apartheid—and gave shape to the history of the park and the nation over the twentieth century. (Following Dlamini, this review uses “black” as a political as opposed to an ethnic or racial category, and African, Coloured, and Indian as used in the text [e.g., 8, 264].)
...MoreBook Jacob S. T. Dlamini (2020) Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park.
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