Ignored by the mainstream media and by a sick university, Bernard Lugan continues its path by making advantage of its analyzes military and foreign experts, business leaders ... and its many players, that make him the knower of the continent black best known to the public. A year after the success of his history of African origins to today, published by the same publisher, he proposes, when football oblige- South Africa occupies the front of the media scene, a history of this country with all the qualities of his previous books, that is to say the density and clarity of the information, the inclusion of ethnicity and the essential complement of abundant mapping and précise.Auteur, in 1986, a first history of South Africa, published by Perrin, it obviously takes into account in his new book, the volume has doubled, the major changes of the last quarter century: release of Nelson Mandela, late of apartheid, founding myth of the "nation rainbow sky", evolution of the ANC, which led to the recent victory of Jacob Zuma Zulu. Summary of analyzes published in recent years in the real Africa, the ones we give the author totally different banalities that prevail in the great presse.Revenant on the history of apartheid, the author evaluates precisely the limits .It shows that the policy of separate development, designed by Dr Verwoerd, had not been seriously implemented and was replaced by a simple view racial segregation inevitably doomed to run. Essential to an intelligent reading of current events, the work of Bernard Lugan also updated in the light of the most recent archaeological research on the history of settlement of the region by the Khoisan-Levaillant those described us in the eighteenth century as the "Hottentots" -the Dutch and the Bantu. Before discussing the famous episodes of the Great Trek or the Anglo-Boer War, he offers us a vivid account and comprehensive population movements corresponding to the so-called "Mfecane" who lives Zulu Sotho and Ndebele chase and upset the entire region which was to later form the Transvaal. The history of relations between the English and Boers, project analysis of Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner, the ramp and the evolution of an Afrikaner nationalism hit a "geopolitical autism" provide the material of depth reflection on the destiny of a country that faces serious challenges, not least has serious advantages to constitute ultimately power the first "emerging" black continent.
