Arts & Books

CODESRIA
Text Book Programme: Call for Applications for 2009

At a first glance, the idea of a book on social science research methods is not an obvious choice, but Nyamnjoh’s is an effective critique of how research on societies in the global South is done, especially by outsiders to such societies.

But Yoon Jung Park has chosen to write about neither of these, but rather about the smallest and at first sight least significant of South Africa’s Chinese communities; the 10,000 to 12,000 South African-born Chinese whose community was already established in South Africa before and during the ap