Research Keywords

• African identities, biography, nationalism, sources, labor and political history

Research Areas

• Political

Time Periods

• 20th Century/Contemporary

Affiliations

• African Studies Center

Recent or current courses

• HST 364 - South Africa and its Neighbors (Spring 2009)

Significant Scholarly Activities

Books

• Peter Limb (editor), Orb and Sceptre: Studies in British Imperialism and its Legacies in Honour of Norman Etherington.. Melbourne: Monash University e-Press (digital) and Sydney University Press (print), 2008.
• Limb, Nelson Mandela: A Biography. Greenwood, 2008.
• Peter Limb and Brown Maaba (eds), Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma: Selected Works. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, forthcoming.
• Peter Limb, Digital Dilemmas and Solutions. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2004.
• Peter Limb, The ANC and Black Workers, 1912-1992: an Annotated Bibliography. Oxford: Hans Zell Publishers, 1993.
• Peter Limb, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo, Personal Papers. Bellville, Cape Town: Mayibuye Centre, University of the Western Cape, 1995.
• Peter Limb and Jean-Marie Volet, Bibliography of African Literatures. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1996.
• Peter Limb, Norman Etherington and Peter Midgley (eds.), Indigenous South(ern) African Responses to Colonialism. Leiden: Leiden, forthcoming, 2009.
• Peter Limb, The ANC’s Early Years: Nation, Class, and Place in South Africa before 1940. Pretoria: Unisa Press, .

Journal Articles

• Peter Limb. "The Digitization of Africa." Africa Today 52.no. 2 Winter (2006): 3-19.
• Peter Limb. "I-Kongilesi Lilizwi ezindi ezindlwini (Congress' Name is Household): Politics and Class in the Cape Province during the 1920s." Historia: Journal of the Historical Association of South Africa 51.1 (May 2006): 49-86.
• Peter Limb. ""The politics of digital “reform and revolution”: towards mainstreaming and African control of African digitisation"." Innovation 34. (2007):