Description: The devastating influenza epidemic of 1918 ripped through southern Africa. In its aftermath, revivalist and millenarian movements sprouted. Prophets appeared bearing messages of resistance, redemption, and renewal.
Review Quotes: "Few historians have written with such empathy and generosity of spirt as Robert Edgar...Now he and Hilary Sapire have produced an elegant and gracious book that offers a wonderfully evocative history of Nontetha and of politics and faith in South Africa...African Apocalypse does offer precious material to investigate more subtly and more creatively some of the most basic challenges to the study of South Africa's modern history. And it does so with grace and empathy. African Apocalypse is as much a book as it is a gift."--Clifton Crais, The International Journal of African Historical Studies