Lie Of 1652
Subtitle: The a Decoloniesed History of Land
Publisher: NB Publishers Limited
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780624089704
Subjects: Social history
Description: "In this radical critique of established pre-colonial and colonial history, Mellet centres land dispossession, the destruction of livelihoods and the brutality of slavery in South Africa. Drawing on scholarly work and his own experience of searching for identity, Mellet provides a bold new perspective on the loss of land and belonging. Characters such as Autshumao, Krotoa and Doman come to life in the story of the founding of a port at Cape Town - over 50 years before Jan van Riebeeck arrived"--Provide by Publisher.