Freedom Is Power: Liberty through Political Representation (Contemporary Political Theory)

Using the history of political thought and real world political contexts, including South Africa and the recent global financial crisis, t...

5:01 PM

Sekoto: The Art of Gerard Sekoto

The tradition of black artists in South Africa has, until recently, been neglected. In the last ten years a new art history has develope...

9:19 AM

uBuntu and the Law: African Ideals and Postapartheid Jurisprudence

This is the first comprehensive casePub to address the relationship of uBuntu to law. It also provides the most important critical articl...

5:19 AM

In Township Tonight!: South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre, Second Edition

David B. Coplan’s pioneering social history of black South Africa’s urban music, dance, and theatre established itself as a classic soon a...

11:50 AM

His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute

He was a son of Africa who became father to a nation and, for billions of people around the world, a beacon of hope, courage, and persever...

9:44 AM

A Taste of South Africa Our 100 top recipes presented in one cookbook

Thanks to the mix of African cooking with European and Asian influences, South Africans have long enjoyed a multi-cultural style of cookin...

6:56 PM

Venus Rising South African Astronomical Beliefs, Customs and Observations

Venus Rising: South African Astronomical Beliefs, Customs and Observations examines traditional South African celestial knowledge, ranging...

7:28 AM

South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid

Apartheid was an oppressive and brutal system of racial discrimination that captured and appalled world opinion during the latter half of ...

4:27 PM

Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa: Negotiating Autonomy, Incorporation and Representation

This book traces the history of women’s political involvement in Southern Africa, in anti-colonial struggles and against apartheid, analyz...

6:45 AM

The South African Cookbook

Recipes from the “big cities” in South Africa. Don’t worry, they don’t start with “Kill and field-dress a Cape Buffalo.” Most of the ingre...

6:31 PM

Down Second Avenue by Es'kia Mphahlele and Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African wr...

12:16 PM

Nelson Mandela: An Extraordinary Life

Twentieth Century History Makers: Nelson Mandela offers a fascinating and complete look at one of the 20th century's great leaders and...

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Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend

Christo Brand was a South African farm boy, born into the Afrikaans culture which had created apartheid to persecute black people and clai...

9:51 AM

Music and Social Change in South Africa: Maskanda Past and Present

Music and Social Change in South Africa looks at contemporary maskanda-a folk musical genre distinguished by fast guitar picking and blues...

9:27 AM

From Revolution to Rights in South Africa

Critics of liberalism in Europe and North America argue that a stress on 'rights talk' and identity politics has led to fragmentat...

6:39 AM

Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an Ideology

Black Power In South Africa: The Evolution Of An Idealogy, by Gerhart, Gail M. [Gail_M._Gerhart]_Black_Power_in_South_Africa_The_Bokos-Z1...

6:36 AM

Limits to Liberation in Southern Africa: The Unfinished Business of Democratic Consolidation

This ground-breaking collection of essays on Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa opens a long-awaited debate on the tran...

6:33 AM

Race, Maternity and the Politics of Birth Control in South Africa, 1910-1939

Using original primary sources, this book uncovers and analyzes for the first time the politics of fertility and the battle over birth con...

7:51 AM

Behind the Mask: Getting to Grips with Crime and Violence in South Africa

A variety of authors contribute to this book on the causes of crime and violence in South Africa. Based on a public health approach, it pr...

7:48 AM

The Colour of Disease: Syphilis and Racism in South Africa, 1880-1950

Today AIDS dominates the headlines, but a century ago it was fears of syphilis epidemics. This book looks at how the spread of syphilis wa...

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