South African Culture Site
Posted in African Culture on 01/16/2012 07:15 pm by admin
Kim Walker-Smith chats about South Africa and something else…
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Temples of the African Gods $14.95 This is a scientific expose that will shatter our knowledge of ancient human history. Scholars have told us that the first civilisation on Earth emerged in a land called Sumer some 6000 years ago. New archaeological and scientific discoveries made by Michael Tellinger, Johan Heine and a team of leading scientists, show that the Sumerians and even the Egyptians inherited all their knowledge from an… |
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A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston $22.94 Charleston, South Carolina, today enjoys a reputation as a destination city for cultural and heritage tourism. In A Golden Haze of Memory, Stephanie E. Yuhl looks back to the crucial period between 1920 and 1940, when local leaders developed Charleston’s trademark image as “America’s Most Historic City.” Eager to assert the national value of their regional cultural traditions and to situate Charle… |
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History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa $20.23 The democratic election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1994 marked the demise of apartheid and the beginning of a new struggle to define the nation’s past. History after Apartheid analyzes how, in the midst of the momentous shift to an inclusive democracy, South Africa’s visual and material culture represented the past while at the same time contributing to the proc… |
