Important+Documents

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY


 * Preparing for the Kruger Experience** - Below are three files that should help you prepare for your experience in and around the Kruger National Park:




 * Reading Material:**

__Typical Required Reading:__

We like our students to do some preliminary reading about the places we will visit and work we will accomplish. Attached is a link to a dropbox folder that contains some of the typical research papers we discuss in this program.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1dp6sr6bpi61hn5/AACxsIhvt3D8iGriXWn9ebTTa?dl=0

__Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD)__

AWARD have some excellent community-based natural resource management and research projects in South Africa. Their website includes many interesting publications.

AWARD website: http://www.award.org.za/home/

__Other Interesting Reading__

You may want to do some advance reading about South Africa. For quick, easy reference, we suggest you look at one (or more) of the following guide books: Bradt Guide to South Africa, Lonely Planet Guide to South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland; Let’s Go South Africa; or Frommer’s South Africa.

For current literature coming out of South Africa, the following is a list of highly recommended novels and autobiographies on ￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼the shelves in South Africa now that can also be found at Amazon.com:

J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace, Life and Times of Michael K, or Waiting For the Barbarians [Nobel Prize winner, 2005] Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions [a great work by a wonderful Zimbabwean novelist]

K. Sello Duiker The Quiet Violence of Dreams Ingrid de Kok, Transfer, or Season Fires [poetry by South Africa’s leading lyric poet]

Athol Fugard, The Township Plays

Nadine Gordimer, Burger’s Daughter, or July’s People [also a Nobel Prize Winner]

Pamela Jooste “Dance with a Poor Man’s Daughter” “Frieda and Min” “People Like Us”

Antjie Krog Country of My Skull [a brilliant personal account of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa’s Nuremburg Trials]

Zakes Mda Ways of Dying

Phaswane Mpe Welcome to Our Hillbrow

Ivan Vladislavic, The Exploded View

Zoe Wicomb, You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, or David’s Story

For nonfiction and a great summary of the rise of the ANC during the Apartheid era, Nelson Mandela’s, Long Walk to Freedom is highly recommended.

A couple of older (and more conservative) classics are Riaan Malan’s My Traitor’s Heart and Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country. For an interesting evaluation of different regions of Africa by a leading U.S. African Studies professor, see Louis Henry Gates, Jr.’s “Wonders of the African World” and John Reader, Africa. Biography of a continent.

On the complicated history of South Africa, see Herman Giliomee, New History of South Africa, or Nigel Worden, The Making of Modern South Africa.