SAARTJIE BAARTMAN was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks she had made the headlines and become the talk of the social season of 1810, hailed as The Hottentont Venus for her exquisite physique (not least her shapely  and irresistible bottom) and sugestive semi-nude [...]

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Author: Rachel Holmes, English, South African History and Culture, Softcover, 250x135mm, full colour, 240pp, ISBN: 9781868422760

“Uncle Simon, what about the Big Man you’re always telling me about. Did he also steal chickens when he was a boy?” It is the heady days of 1960s South Africa, with Nelson Mandela in hiding from the Apatheid Government’s Security forces. For Dumisa Gumede, a herdboy and budding Don Juan, Mandela is the stuff [...]

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Author: Lewis Nkosi, English, South African Literature, Softcover, 250x185mm, full colour, 182pp, ISBN: 9781415200076

The Steve BikoMemorial Lecture, an annual program of the Steve Biko Foundation, is a seriesof lectures by some of the international community’s foremost scholars,artists, religious and political leaders. The lectures explore theenduring legacy and leadership of Stephen Bantu Biko in a contemporarycontext. The Steve BikoMemorial Lectures, Edition 1 is a compilation of some of the [...]

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Author: Various Authors, English, Softcover, 141pp, 230x150mm, ISBN: 9781770101630,
Price: (ZA)R 160

The resonance of Call Me Woman is as great in 2004 as when first published in 1985. It tells the important history, not only of one woman struggling under apartheid, but of millions who faced similar challanges.

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Author: Ellen Kuzwayo, English, South African History and Culture, Softcover, 304pp, 198x130mm, ISBN: 0958470820,
Price: (ZA)R 125

The African Cities Reader is a collaboration between the Africa Center for Cities and Chimurenga. The African Cities Reader was edited by Ntone Edjabe and Edgar Pieterse. The African Cities Reader, an annual compendium of writing and art from multiple genres, forms of representation, and points of view, embodies and reflects the rich pluralism, cosmopolitanism [...]

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Author: edited by Ntone Edjabe and Edgar Pieterse, English, NonArt, Softcover, 250x205mm, black and white, full colour, 256pp, ISBN: 9780981427287,
Price: (ZA)R 265

Edited by Tanya Barson and Peter Gorschluter. With contributions by: Petrine Archer-Straw, Roberto Conduru, Manthia Diawara and Edouard Glissant, Courtney J Martin, Kobena Mercer, Huey Copeland with Thelma Golden and Glen Ligon. This important new book addresses a key area of post-colonial studies coined by the British academic Paul Gilroy in 1993- the notion of [...]

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Author: Tanya Barson, Peter Gorschluter, English, Art General, Softcover, 255x215mm, full colour, ISBN: 9781854379238,
Price: (ZA)R 250

Tehaka’s Journey: A Novel by Murray McMillan This progression of three tales, set in the nineteenth century, in the present and in the near future, respectively, holds a message that is just as relevant in each era. The issue under scrutiny is greed and the way it underlies human society. George Braithwaite is an ambitious [...]

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Author: Murray McMillan, English, NonArt, Softcover,208x148mm,377pp,Black & White, ISBN: 9781857566079,
Price: (ZA)R 205

Banana masks and headdresses, Lega ivories, Dogon sculpture, and Benue bronzes are among the many exquisite African artifacts found in the renowned Menil Collection. This book – the first comprehensive catalogue on John and Dominique de Menil’s collection of African art – features 115 of the museum’s finest pieces. Dating primarily from the nineteenth and [...]

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Author: edited by Kristina Van Dyke, English, Art General, Hardcover, 292x252mm, full colour, 240pp, ISBN: 9780300123760,
Price: (ZA)R 780

Edited by Tanya Barson and Peter Gorschluter. With contributions by: Petrine Archer-Straw, Roberto Conduru, Manthia Diawara and Edouard Glissant, Courtney J Martin, Kobena Mercer, Huey Copeland with Thelma Golden and Glen Ligon. This important new book addresses a key area of post-colonial studies coined by the British academic Paul Gilroy in 1993- the notion of [...]

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Author: Edited by Tanya Barson and Peter Gorschluter., English, Art General, Hardcover, Jacket, 258x224mm, full colour, 208pp, ISBN: 9781854379238

Chris Hani’s assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa’s great imponderables: if he had survived, what impact would he have had on politics and government in South Africa? More pointedly, could this charismatic leader have risen to become president of the country? Hani was a hero of South Africa’s liberation, a communist [...]

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Author: Janet Smith & Beauregard Tromp, English, NonArt, Sofcover, 230x150mm, 338pg, Black and White, ISBN: 9781868423491