{"product_id":"morafe-person-family-and-nation-in-colonial-bechuanaland-1880s-1950s-paperback-1","title":"Morafe: Person, Family, and Nation in Colonial Bechuanaland, 1880s-1950s - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKhumisho Moguerane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMorafe, \u003c\/i\u003eKhumisho Moguerane has written a luminous exploration of two generations of the prominent Molema family. They were \"border people\" who straddled what would become present-day South Africa and Botswana. The book begins in the 1880s at the frontier of the new British territories of Bechuanaland (North West and Northern Cape provinces) and the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana), where the political boundary between these two territories was negligible and where skin color did not yet necessarily connect with a particular social or political status or affect economic opportunity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMorafe \u003c\/i\u003eends in the 1950s, when the political boundary mattered profoundly, dividing two very different colonial dispensations of racial ordering and classification, and two separate traditions of nationalist politics. With this landmark publication, Moguerane reveals that \"the nation\" is less \"out there,\" in public institutions and political struggles, and more \"in here,\" in the everyday drama of personal and ordinary lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKhumisho Moguerane\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian of European empire in southern Africa and a researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is interested in everyday practice and the vernacular concepts that mediate it. Her analysis is an interdisciplinary endeavor, exploring how moral worlds shape the apprehension of self in everyday life to affect political identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 492\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.16 x 9.2 x 6.21 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 23, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47565671006429,"sku":"9780821426982","price":77.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/bMq4gXe1-G9780821426982_6cba03f7-6b7f-4bd6-92ff-26cdd15d49a8.webp?v=1773302531","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/morafe-person-family-and-nation-in-colonial-bechuanaland-1880s-1950s-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}