OLIVER TAMBO, a Jacana pocket biography

165pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2017

A short biography of Oliver Tambo that covers his role as a leader of the ANC in South Africa through the Defiance Campaign, the Congress of the People and the Treason Trial and, after Sharpeville in 1960, as the pre-eminent leader in exile in London, Tanzania and Zambia.

Historian Hugh MacMillan is currently a research associate at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, and an extraordinary researcher at the University of the Western Cape. His most recent book is "The Lusaka Years: the ANC in exile in Zambia 1963-94".