Traditionally, the Eastern Cape frontier of South Africa has been regarded as the preeminent contact zone between colonists and the Khoi (“Hottentots”) and San (“Bushmen”). Bu
Delmas (history, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales, France) and Penn (history, U. of Cape Town, South Africa) bring together two fields of research in this collection of 15 papers: the history
Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa. Starting with travel writers and missionary intellectuals in the seventeenth ce
