Blending personal memoir and historical inquiry Darker Shade of Pale traces early twentieth century Jewish migration from the Russian Empire to colonial South Africa through one man’s life.

African scholars examine the construction of “the human” as it’s been conceived through the power of coloniality, arguing for indigenous knowledge systems and traditional wisdom to be part of the conversation.

This book interrogates how capitalism is destroying democracy through the commodification of everything into market democracy, and affirms the need to reclaim and re-build expansive democracy.

Focuses on the divide between Zulu and Xhosa speakers, Divided by the Word offers a refreshing new appreciation for the deep historicity of language and ethnic identity in South Africa, by reconstructing the ways in which colonial forces generate and impose ethnic divides with long-lasting and lethal consequences.

In Dockside Reading Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. By tracking printed matter from ship to shore, Hofmeyr shows how literary institutions like copyright and censorship were shaped by colonial control of coastal waters.