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By Dominique Lapierre
In 1652 a small team of Dutch farmers landed at the southernmost tip of Africa. despatched through the strong Dutch India corporation, their challenge used to be just to develop greens and provide ships rounding the cape. The colonists, despite the fact that, have been confident by means of their strict Calvinist religion that they have been between God’s “Elect,” selected to rule over the continent. Their saga—bloody, ferocious, and fervent—would culminate 3 centuries later in a single of the best tragedies of historical past: the institution of a racist regime within which a white minority may subjugate and victimize hundreds of thousands of blacks. known as apartheid, it used to be a toxic approach that may in simple terms finish with the liberation from felony of 1 of the ethical giants of our time, Nelson Mandela.
A Rainbow within the Night is Dominique Lapierre’s epic account of South Africa’s tragic historical past and the heroic males and women—famous and vague, white and black, ecu and African—who have, with their blood and tears, delivered to lifestyles the rustic that's this day often called the Rainbow state.
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Gallagher and R . Robinson, 1953; R . E . Robinson and J. Gallagher in F . H . ), 1962. R . E . Robinson and J. Gallagher, 1961. 19. C . J. H . Hayes, 1941, pp. 205-8. 20. , p. 218. 21. , p. 219. 22. H . Brunschwig, 1966, pp. 4-13. 23. W . L . Langer, 1935. 24. See J. Stengers, 1962; C . W . Newbury and A . S. Kanya-Forstner, 1969; G . N . Uzoigwe, 1974 and 1977; W . R . ), 1976. 25. G . N . Uzoigwe, 1974. 26 T h e African dimension theory T h u s far, the theories of the partition have treated Africa in the context of European history.
Duignan (eds), 1969 and 1970; P. Gifford and W . R . Louis (eds), 1967 and 1971; J. Suret-Canale, 1971. 13 Africa under Colonial Domination 1880—igjs question which is answered in the third section of this volume and a great deal of attention is paid to this question in conformity with the philosophy underlying this work, that is, to view the story from an African standpoint and to highlight African initiatives and reactions. African attitudes in this period were certainly not characterized by indifference or passivity or ready acceptance.
R . 13 T h e question then is if it can be so used, w h y use it at all, especially in the African case where it is so inaccurate? W h y not use the word ally which is indeed the m o r e appropriate term? Tofa, the king of the G u n kingdom of Porto N o v o has always been cited as a typical example of a collaborator. But was he? A s Hargreaves has clearly s h o w n , 1 4 Tofa was facing three different enemies at the time of the arrival of the French - the Yoruba to the north-east, the F o n kings of D a h o m e y to the north and the British o n the coast — and he must have seen the arrival of the French as a god-sent opportunity for him not only to protect his sovereignty but even to m a k e some gains at the expense of his enemies.