Fighting an Invisible Enemy: The Story of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases
$ 24.42Author: Barry Schoub
A history of the establishment and role of the public health organisation, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa.
Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele
$ 30.60Editor(s): Bhekizizwe Peterson, Makhosazana Xaba, Khwezi MkhizeBhekizizwe Peterson, Makhosazana Xaba|Khwezi Mkhize
This collection explores the complexities of black existence, and intellectual and cultural life in the work and legacies of centenarian writers, Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele.
Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing
$ 27.82Author: Nigel C Gibson
An essential introduction to Fanon’s remarkable life and philosophy. Connecting his writing, psychiatric practice and lived experience in the Caribbean, France and Africa, Gibson highlights Fanon’s philosophical commitments and the vision of revolution that he stood for. Fanon’s oeuvre is essential to thinking about race today.
God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End
$ 19.78Author: Casey Golomski
A close study of a South African nursing home’s older white residents and the younger Black nurses who care for them. Weaving together past and present, Golomski reveals how ageism, sexism and racism intersect and impact health as well as create conditions in which people primed to be enemies find grace despite apartheid’s lingering scars.
Good Jew, Bad Jew: Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Assault on Meaning
$ 21.64Author: Steven Friedman
Shows how and why the meaning of anti-Jewish racism has been distorted to serve the Israeli state and what this implies for anti-racism today.
Governing Compex City-Regions In The Twenty-First Century: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa
$ 30.60Author: Philip Harrison
Explores the challenges of large, complex, institutionally fragmented, and dynamic city-regions across the BRICS countries and the emergence of formal and informal governance arrangements.
Guerilla Radios in Southern Africa: Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and The Armed Struggle
$ 25.97Editor(s): Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Tshepo Moloi, Alda Romão Saúte SaÃde
Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa is a collection of essays on the histories of the different radios of the liberation movements in the region during the era of the armed struggle. It explores the workings of these radios from their areas of broadcast in exile, and international solidarity, to their reception at home by listeners.
I Want To Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis
$ 25.97Editor(s): Loren Landau, Tanya Pampalone
I Want to Go Home Forever tells 13 true stories relating to xenophobia and belonging in Gauteng. Told from the perspective of both South Africans and immigrants, the stories reflect the difficulties and contradictions in their relations. Yet all reveal the desire to make a home in the ‘bright new future’ promised by a democratic South Africa.
I Write The Yawning Void: Selected Essays of Sindiwe Magona
$ 21.64Compiled by Renée Schatteman
Editor: Sindiwe Magona
A selection of essays about writing, life and the South African condition by Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa�s most significant woman writers.
Johnny Clegg: Critical Reflections on his Music and Influence
$ 25.97Editor(s): Michael Drewett, Lucilla Spini
This interdisciplinary study critically examines South African performer and scholar Johnny Clegg’s cultural hybridity, resistance to apartheid, and broader impact on South African identity and politics.
Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Black Arts: Poetics of Possibility
$ 21.64Author: Uhuru Portia Phalafala
A key study on writer and activist Keorapetse Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora, and makes a major contribution to the histories of Black lives, gender studies, jazz studies, politics, and creativity.
Lie On Your Wounds: The prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
$ 40.19Editor: Derek Hook
Robert Sobukwe, founder of the Pan Africanist Congress, was better known during rather than after apartheid. With South Africa’s changing political climate and the decline of the ANC’s hegemonic hold on power, Sobukwe is re-emerging as a political thinker. This selection of his prison letters breaks the silence that has characterised his legacy.
