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Cultures of South Africa- A Celebration

The features and faces of South Africa’s indigenous cultures are as varied as the continent’s many textures and colours. In Cultures of South Africa: A Celebration author Peter Joyce and photographer Roger de la Harpe celebrate this extraordinary diversity – of tradition, custom, history and geography of the land. This spectacular, full-colour volume explores the [...]

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The Art of Recycling in Kenya

Amidst dumps and slums, street children and artisans search for how to survive, to reclaim and promote their own existence. This publication offers photographs taken in the markets and villages of Kenya, where initiative promoting self-sustenance have developed on the development of experience in exploiting poor and recyclable materials. The discovery of  “poor art”, from [...]

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Sicebile – Swaziland’s Cultural Adornment and Artefacts

by GORDON CRAWFORD The name of the book Sicebile has its roots in the Swazi word for ‘treasure’ and it has a few alternate meanings, including “We are rich”, “we have treasure” and “we are blessed”. It is usually used in the context of family. I have has spent twenty years in research, visited related [...]

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Filed in African History, Bookstore, Culture, South African

 

Scorched: South Africa’s Changing Climate

Scorched is a vivid journey through South Africa’s mesmerising landscape as climate changes sets in. It wanders through the KwaZulu Natal Midlands to capture the last faltering calls of a rain frog that was named after the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

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Flowers of the Nation

AOM Flowers of the Nation is a novella about self empowerment and taking responsibility. It shatters the myth that impoverishment and blackness go together, showcases the new century’s renaissance man, and provides insight into Aids policy and other issues. In the beautiful Zenaele and her family you will find the compelling reality of today’s South [...]

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Have You Seen Zandile?

AOM Have You Seen Zandile? is a wonderful South African resource, still as fresh and absorbing as when it was first written.  Perfectly scripted, and with Gcina Mhlophe’s sure instinct for stagecraft, it recounts the very personal story of Zandile, who is snatched away from her grandmother’s loving care and taken to live with her [...]

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Portraits of African Writers

This is a stunning collectionof more than 100 portraits, in black and white, of writers and, in particular, South Africa. The chronological arrangementreveals the changing conditions and roles of writers from the 1960s to the present. While the early pictures were mostly taken in exile, there is a distinct shift as writers acme back to [...]

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Filed in African History, Bookstore, Culture, Photography, South African

 

Stories of Africa

AOM This folklore story collection offers a feast of enjoyment for young South African readers. Ten enchanting tales, steeped in the imaginative richness of African oral tradition: Where did the first stories in the world come from?  How did little Tortoise win the respect of all the other animals? Who was Nanana bo Sele Sele [...]

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And They Didn’t Die

AOM And They Didn’t Die dramatises the heroism of Jezile, a young rural woman. Her story also depicts the emergence of collective resistance by rural women in South Africa of the 1950s and 60s. Above all it is a story of redemption in the strength and vitality of one woman who will not allow intense [...]

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Within Loving Memory of the Century: An Autobiography

AOM The book collapses the boundaries between memoir, history and moral philosophy. As highly original African literature it asserts a different order of logic and structure.  This moving book is freely illustrated with artwork of Mbatha’s own making, choice and allocation.  

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