A Will for the Machine
$ 25.87Outlines South Africa’s entry into the computer age and explains how it coincided with apartheid’s zenith. It relates this history to early twentieth-century struggles around mechanisation in mining and telephony and analyses responses to it by Miriam Tlali, JM Coetzee and William Kentridge.
Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City
$ 25.87Examines Johannesburg as a city of multitudinous and contradictory anxieties, showing how anxiety is an overlooked but vital structuring principle of contemporary life.
Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Un
$ 27.72Addresses the complex interplay between the apartheid state’s security services and its radical opponents, unveiling hidden struggles and offering unique insights into South Africa’s liberation history.
Archives of Times Past
$ 27.72This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa’s pre-colonial story.
Becoming Men
$ 21.56This vivid evocation of the lives of 32 boys from a Johannesburg township is essential reading for anybody wishing to understand black masculinity in South Africa.
Black X
$ 21.56Black X examines the signifier X, a marker of the dehumanization of the black subject, and argues for Azania as a liberatory project in South Africa.
Bloke of all Ages
$ 25.87Explores South African writer Bloke Modisane’s literary and intellectual legacy through critical essays, offering fresh insight and global context on his versatile work.
Bones and Bodies
$ 27.72Alan G Morris critically examines the history of evolutionary anthropology in South Africa, uncovering the implicit racial biases of these physical anthropology researchers and the discipline itself.
Brutalism
$ 21.56An analysis of BRICS in the context of increasing US induced imperial chaos, deepening environmental crises, contradictory dynamics inside BRICS countries and growing subaltern resistance.
Can Themba
$ 25.87Mahala’s biography views the life and writing of Can Themba (1924-1967), an iconic figure of the South African literary world and Drum journalist who died in exile.
Changing Theory
$ 34.49This book is a systematic and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere.
Cuba and Africa, 1959 – 1994
$ 25.87Essays on the non-military engagements between Cuba and African countries from the period of the Cold War to African independence.
