Rethinking South Africa’s Past

This book presents key historical scholarship published in Safundi from 1999 to 2024, tracing South Africa’s past through approaches of comparative history, transnational history, and visual history, in addition to addressing the importance of topics like gender, labor and class dynamics, as well as regional historiographies. The first section of the book focuses on comparative history as a founding method for Safundi , given the journal’s origins in American and South African studies, while als