Southern African Liberation Struggles

Edited by Arnold J. Temu and Joel das N. Tembe. Nine volumes constituting the most comprehensive historical record of the liberation struggles in southern Africa, comprising 2.4 million words across 5,394 pages. The collection records interviews with liberation fighters and supporters in the Frontline States and documents the extraordinary sacrifices they made. With the fall of the South African apartheid regime, the Southern African Development Community identified the need to record the experiences of the liberation struggles from 1960 until final liberation in 1994. SADC launched the Hashim Mbita Project, named after the last Executive Secretary of the OAU Liberation Committee. Research covered liberation movements in SADC mainland states: Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho, and Swaziland. The volumes also document support from Anglophone West Africa, Francophone Africa, North Africa, East Asia, Canada, the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean, the Nordic countries, Western Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Non-Aligned Movement.