Thula Simpson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has published extensively on the ANC's armed struggle and the organisation's relationship with popular protest movements in South Africa. He is the author of Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC's Armed Struggle (2016).

Preface 1. Dialectical Dances: Exploring John Dube's Public Life2. 'A Member of the Race': Dr Modiri Molema's Intellectual Engagement with the Popular History of South Africa, 1912-19213. Women and the Problem of Family in Early African Nationalist History and Historiography4. The African National Congress in the Western Transvaal/Northern Cape Platteland, c.1910-1964: Patterns of Diffusion and Support for Congress in a Rural Setting5. The Lasting Legacy: The Soviet Theory of the National-Democratic Revolution and South Africa6. The Genesis of the ANC's Armed Struggle in South Africa 1948-19617. The African National Congress (ANC) Underground: From the M-Plan to Rivonia8. 'The Road to Freedom is via the Cross': 'Just Means' in Chief Albert Luthuli's Life9. Emasculating Agency: An Unambiguous Assessment of Albert Luthuli's Stance on Violence10. Secret Party: South African Communists between 1950 and 196011. The ANC, MK, and 'The Turn to Violence' (1960-1962)12. Armed and Trained: Nelson Mandela's 1962 Military Mission as Commander in Chief of Umkhonto we Sizwe and Provenance for his Buried Makatov Pistol13. Transformations in the ANC External Mission and Umkhonto we Sizwe, c. 1960-196914. Healthcare in Exile: ANC Health Policy and Health Care Provision in MK Camps, 1964 to 198915. Main Machinery: The ANC's Armed Underground in Johannesburg During the 1976 Soweto Uprising16. 'Umkhonto we Sizwe, We are Waiting for You': The ANC and the Township Uprising, September 1984 - September 198517. Sex in a Time of Exile: An Examination of Sexual Health, AIDS, Gender, and the ANC, 1980-1990