Keletso Atkins's 1993 book The Moon Is Dead! Give Us Our Money! The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843–1900 , remains as prescient now as it was a quarter-century ago. Atkins's insistence on a methodology that foregrounded African labor regimes as logically consistent, rational, and deserving of full consideration within a proto-capitalist colonial market has had a significant impact in Southern African historical scholarship, and these calls have been taken up with earnest by subsequent scholars. Perhaps most important, however, has been her self-aware approach as a black scholar writing to and for members of the diaspora, an academic achievement rarely repeated in her subfield. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]