A graduate of Rhodes University, Grahamstown, and St Antony s College, Oxford, CHARLES VAN ONSELEN is an acclaimed historian and author of The Seed is Mine and The Fox and the Flies. His awards include the American African Studies Association s Herskovits Prize, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Trevor Reese Memorial Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. He has published extensively in leading historical journals in America, England and France, and has been honored with visiting fellowships at Cambridge, Oxford and Yale. He is currently Research Professor in the Faculty of Humani...