'What do African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like? What comple...

An empathetic biography of the apartheid author, Richard Rive.Richard Moore Rive (1930-1989) was ...

The Nightwatchman: Essays on Portraiture and the Black Male Figure in Colonial South Africa bring...

The Nightwatchman: Essays on Portraiture and the Black Male Figure in Colonial South Africa bring...

What does the lawn want? To be watered, fertilised, mowed, admired, fretted over, ignored? This u...

What exactly is decolonisation? This volume brings together the most innovative thinking on curri...

As a robust, critical assessment of power and accountability in the sub-Saharan context, this tex...

This edited collection gives voice to neglected public intellectuals in the arts, humanities, and...

Building on the work of economic historian Douglass North and Ugandan political scholar Mahmood M...

Plants are not quite historical actors in their own right, but their properties help to shape hum...

The first academic work to provide an historical account and explanation of the development of th...

The first the English and Zulu Dictionary dictionary was published in 1958 by Wits Unviersity Pre...

This volume examines the way in which various strands of left thought have addressed the National...

Explores the implications of deploying the visual domain in the service of transformative agendas...

This fifth volume in the New South African Review series takes as its starting point the shock wa...

South Africa is ready for a new vocabulary than can form the basis for a national consciousness w...

The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in...

'The equine colonisers of southern Africa not only provided power and transportation to settlers ...

A collection of photographs of District Six, a vibrant suburb in Cape Town, whose destruction in ...

You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokotho is a bristling example...

In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialisation been as comprehensively ...

For many people 'nature' means wilderness and wild animals. It is experienced indirectly through ...

Dorothea Bleek (1873-1948) devoted her life to completing the 'bushman researches' that her fathe...

Sheds new light on Native Life appearing at a critical historical juncture, and reflects on how t...

Shadow of Liberation explores the intricate twists, turns, contestations and compromises of ANC e...

An interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what 'the social' might mean after aparth...

The story of one of the leading trade unions in South Africa, the National Union of Mineworkers, ...

Reflecting on the problematics of psychology as a colonial, Euro-American discipline, this editio...

The insights following in the wake of the Human Genome project are radically influencing our unde...

In the final installment of the Visual Century Collection, the impact of the end of the apartheid...

Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that 'peop...

A beautiful book dedicated to southern hemisphere astronomyFew books are devoted entirely to the ...

A full color book featuring Tsonga and Shangaan art and cultureDunga Manzi Stirring Waters featur...

Drawing on interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV-positive, this title provides a pe...

'Third edition of The Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa.'

The 2017 publication of Betrayal of the Promise, the report that detailed the systematic nature o...

Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent black female writersStudying these w...

Focusing on three South African communities the authors dismiss the idea that some groups are voi...

A look at the research methods in development across the global SouthSocial science researchers i...

A clear, concise and accessible dissection guide for undergraduate allied health sciences and med...

'Bushmen letters addresses a curiously neglected area in the burgeoning literature on the Bleek a...

The 'Cradle of Humankind' (COH), bordering Gauteng and the North-West Province in South Africa, w...

Dumile Feni was one of Africa's greatest 20th century artists - painter, sculptor, poet, and nasc...

Draws on Amartya Sen's notion of co-operative conflict to argue that in times of crisis there is ...

Part of a series of short books on South Africa's World Heritage Sites, this guide to Sterkfontei...

An innovative play tackling the role of patriarchy in South African cultureZakes Mda's satire is ...

Sophiatown was the 'Chicago of South Africa', a vibrant community that produced not only gangster...

Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection from o...