Wade's Reviews > Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony

As my first foray into the deep political issues of my country at the moment, this book was overloaded to me with terms, events, people, and social science concepts. I loved it. It was both a big start to my continued interest in political and social change and my awareness of current governmental habits. It was difficult, I admit, to get through, since I was very unused to the academic dialect at the time, but it posed a challenge through that which was good for me. Intensely well-researched and controversial for the average ignorant citizen (and we are all indeed ignorant by design, let us not pretend), but also severely necessary.