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Books narrated by Jack Devnarain

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    Belonging

    A History of Indian South Africans

    by Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed ...
    Narrated by Jack Devnarain ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 22 min

    What does it mean to belong?Across oceans and centuries, this sweeping narrative shuttles between the corridors of the Colonial Office in London, the contested streets of Durban, and the changing power dynamics within the British Raj.The first boatload of indentured Indians arrived in Natal in 1860. Thousands were to follow. In haunting detail, the book captures the plight of these labourers as ... Read more

    RM 73.85 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Belonging

    A History of Indian South Africans

    by Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed ...
    What does it mean to belong? Across oceans and centuries, this sweeping narrative shuttles between the corridors of the Colonial Office in London, the contested streets of Durban, and the changing power dynamics within the British Raj. The first boatload of indentured Indians arrived in Natal in 1860. Thousands were to follow. In haunting detail, the book captures the plight of these labourers as ... Read more

    RM 63.59

  • The South African Gandhi

    Stretcher-Bearer of Empire

    by Ashwin Desai, Goolem Vahed ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    A biography detailing Gandhi's twenty-year stay in South Africa and his attitudes and behavior in the nation's political context.In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African ... Read more

    RM 74.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colour, Class and Community - The Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994

    by Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed ...
    Positions the history and inner workings of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) against the canvas of the major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s up to the first democratic elections in 1994Following a hiatus in the 1960s, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in South Africa was revived in 1971. In fascinating detail,Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed bring the inner workings of ... Read more

    RM 125.29

  • A History of the Present

    A Biography of Indian South Africans, 1990–2019

    by Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed ...
    Through the long 20th century, Indian South Africans lived under the whip of settler colonialism and white minority rule, which saw the passing of a slew of legislation that circumscribed their freedom of movement, threatened repatriation, and denied them citizenship, all the while herding them into racially segregated townships. This volume chronicles the broad outlines of this history. Taking ... Read more

    RM 268.39

  • Reverse Sweep

    A story of South African cricket since apartheid

    by Ashwin Desai ...
    In this searing and revealing account of cricket in post-apartheid South Africa, Ashwin Desai deftly tells a story of promise and despair, the story of a new pitch; a quick start full of hope, followed by a steady erosion of the commitments needed to fulfil the promise of a level-playing field. Economic and political compromises contributed to holding back the pulling aside of the covers of race ... Read more

    RM 45.99

  • We Are the Poors

    Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    by Ashwin Desai ...
    When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination, injustice and inequality. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of life for the majority of oppressed South Africans, however. Material inequality has deepened and new forms of resistance have emerged in commnities that have ... Read more

    RM 60.49

  • We Are the Poors

    Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    by Ashwin Desai ...
    When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination, injustice and inequality. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of life for the majority of oppressed South Africans, however. Material inequality has deepened and new forms of resistance have emerged in commnities that have ... Read more

    RM 60.49

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    How to Make It as an Immigrant in the Best Country in the World

    by Dolar Popat ...
    FOREWORD by David CameronFleeing Idi Amin's regime, seventeen year-old Ugandan Indian immigrant Dolar Popat landed at Heathrow in 1971 with just £10 and a cardboard suitcase to his name but with everything to prove.Fuelled by a tenacious entrepreneurial spirit, a sharp talent for finance and an unparalleled drive for success, Popat worked relentlessly to pay his gratitude to the country that ... Read more

    RM 69.29 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mandela

    A Critical Life

    by Tom Lodge ...
    Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. But what are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? And to what extent did Mandela self-consciously create the status of political hero that he now enjoys? This new and highly revealing biography examines these questions in detail for the first time. Drawing on a range of ... Read more

    RM 56.69

  • Counterpower

    Making Change Happen

    by Tim Gee ...
    This timely book argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves."Investigating the history and tactics of major movements of the past and today's global justice and human rights movements, Tim Gee demonstrates what works and what doesn't work. In showing how counterpower can be strategically ... Read more

    RM 48.59

  • We're Here Because You Were There

    Immigration and the End of Empire

    by Ian Sanjay Patel ...
    What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state racism that still resonates today.In a series of post-war immigration laws from 1948 to 1971, arrivals from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa to Britain went from being citizens to being renamed immigrants. In the late 1960s, British officials drew ... Read more

    RM 34.89