Book description
Tracing the expansion of South African business into other areas of
Africa in the years after apartheid, Richard A. Schroeder explores why
South Africans have not always made themselves welcome guests abroad.
By looking at investments in Tanzania, a frontline state in the fight
for liberation, Schroeder focuses on the encounter between white South
Africans and Tanzanians and the cultural, social, and economic
controversies that have emerged as South African firms assume control
of local assets. Africa after Apartheid affords a penetrating look at
the unexpected results of the expansion of African business
opportunities following the demise of apartheid
"An engrossing and self-reflexive account of the impacts--for
both hosts and visitors--of South African whites in Tanzania in the
post-apartheid era. Schroeder details the fascinating and ironic
juxtaposition of white South African investors within a leading polity
at the forefront of the fight to end the apartheid system whose demise
the investors fled. Informed by a treasure trove of ethnographic
material that attends to the diverse views of both Tanzanian and South
African informants and a broad and deep reading of the relevant
literatures in Tanzanian and southern African studies, Schroeder has
produced an exceptional book of great value for an interdisciplinary
African studies audience. A wider group of scholars in fields from
anthropology to development studies will find much to ponder and to
utilize in this book, one of the finest examples of truly regional
contempoary geography yet produced in African research." -Garth
Myers, University of Kansas
Richard A. Schroeder is Associate Professor and Chair of the
Geography Department at Rutgers University. He is author of Shady
Practices: Gender and Agroforestry Politics in The Gambia, and editor
(with Viqdis Broch-Due) of Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa.
