John Saul's reflections on the struggle for liberation to which he devoted a
lifetime of scholarship and activism – the wise lessons he draws, and his
resolute refusal to be pessimistic in spite of all setbacks – should be not just
read but taken to heart by everyone who cares about the future of Africa and the
world.
Colin Leys, author of The Rise and Fall of Development Theory, and Total
Capitalism
Liberation Lite takes as its principal focus the limited meaning that liberation
has come to have in southern Africa – despite the heroic struggles there that
had so recently overthrown white racist rule. For