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"Benedict Carton writes history with a rare mixture of
passion and precision. His colorful narrative of the "war of
the heads" records a generational conflict that reminds us
once again that past is prologue in Africa as
elsewhere."
Richard Stengell, Senior Editor, Time, and collaborator
with Nelson Mandela on Long Walk to Freedom
"The South African revolution of the nineties was--and
is-- unambiguously predicated on the energy of an
overwhelmingly youthful black population that has been at
increasing odds with its elders ever since the onset of
primary industrialisation in the late nineteenth century.
Benedict Carton's astute insights into the origins and
trajectories of these painful generational writhings are
rendered accessible through the fluent prose that makes this
book an absolute analytical and narrative delight."
--Charles van Onselen, author of The Seed Is
Mine
"More than anything I've read in recent years, this book
sees generational conflict not as an explanation, but as a
set of practices--and reactions against those
practices--that constituted every household, every herd, and
every labor contract in Zululand. Carton doesn't
underestimate the impact of British domination, however; he
has understood African actions--most notably the Bhambatha
Rebellion--as struggling against two patriarchies, rather
than resisting one foreign one."
--Luise White, University of Florida
"Blood from Your Children is a carefully
researched, well-balanced, and frequently gripping account
of a key episode in South African history. There are moments
in the narrative, particularly in the citing of African oral
testimony or court evidence, where individual phrases create
a shock of recognition where one feels the argument ringing
absolutely true."
--Philip Bonner, University of the
Witwatersrand
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