Morafe

Khumisho Moguerane is a historian of European empire in southern Africa and a researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is interested in everyday practice and the vernacular concepts that mediate it. Her analysis is an interdisciplinary endeavor, exploring how moral worlds shape the apprehension of self in everyday life to affect political identity.

"A magnificent achievement that changes much of what we think we know about southern African history." - Isabel Hofmeyr, author of Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House "Morafe is scholarly and fine-grained, yet written with brio and flair . . . there is nothing else like it!" - Paul S. Landau, author of Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries "This book is not only about the Molemas, or the history of Botswana and South Africa; it is also about the ways in which we become human and the stories we tell ourselves about that humanity, to prevent it from unravelling." - Tara Weinberg Kronos: Southern African Histories