Jacob Dlamini is the author of Native Nostalgia and Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, winner of the Alan Paton Award. He is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and was previously political editor of Business Day in South Africa. Dlamini grew up under apartheid in a township outside Johannesburg.

In The Terrorist Album, Jacob Dlamini has managed to reconstruct some of apartheid South Africa’s most violent and disturbing episodes, despite the former regime’s extensive efforts to erase its crimes and cover its tracks. Using archival evidence and detailed interviews with both perpetrators and their victims’ families, Dlamini, a superb historian and memoirist, has excavated a story that otherwise would have been hidden and forgotten.

Jacob Dlamini is the author of Native Nostalgia and Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, winner of the Alan Paton Award. He is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and was previously political editor of Business Day in South Africa. Dlamini grew up under apartheid in a township outside Johannesburg.

In The Terrorist Album, Jacob Dlamini has managed to reconstruct some of apartheid South Africa’s most violent and disturbing episodes, despite the former regime’s extensive efforts to erase its crimes and cover its tracks. Using archival evidence and detailed interviews with both perpetrators and their victims’ families, Dlamini, a superb historian and memoirist, has excavated a story that otherwise would have been hidden and forgotten.

Jacob Dlamini is the author of Native Nostalgia and Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, winner of the Alan Paton Award. He is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and was previously political editor of Business Day in South Africa. Dlamini grew up under apartheid in a township outside Johannesburg.

In The Terrorist Album, Jacob Dlamini has managed to reconstruct some of apartheid South Africa’s most violent and disturbing episodes, despite the former regime’s extensive efforts to erase its crimes and cover its tracks. Using archival evidence and detailed interviews with both perpetrators and their victims’ families, Dlamini, a superb historian and memoirist, has excavated a story that otherwise would have been hidden and forgotten.