Rethinking Africa: Indigenous Women Re-interpret Southern Africa’s Pasts was edited by Bernedette Muthien and June Bam. The book captures the stories of women scholars in the post-colonial, they define their contemporary cultural and socio-economic conditions and help people understand the African past. The book provides new and different thinking, philosophies, epistemologies, methodologies and interpretations.

Congratulations Makhosazana Xaba on putting together this compelling book. This multi-genre anthology brings together the writing of over twenty contributors. The book explores the history and impact of poetry by black women. Read more...

Pages: 328

ISBN: 978 1 86914 412 8

Publish Year: July 2019

Publisher: UKZN Press

How central are the media to the functioning of democracy? Is democracy primarily about citizens using their vote? Does the expression of their voice necessarily empower citizens? Media and Citizenship challenges some assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like South Africa.

In this book Kopano Ratele suggests that all masculinities are working models, and some models might be more unworkable given the prevailing structural conditions. The more models of masculinity we have access to, the higher the likelihood that some will be workable, even liberating. Liberating Masculinities presents ways to understand the contestations around masculinity and gender relations. 

Pages: 192

ISBN 13: 978-0-7969-2521-3

Publish Year: October 2016

This book challenges policy makers, researchers, educators and civil society organisations to think critically about the relationship between post-school education and the world of work, and about how to transform the post-school system to better serve the needs and interests of rural and urban communities. It issues a call to action and proposes key principles to inform an alternative vision of post-school learning.

Pages: 312

ISBN 13: 978-0-7969-2524-4

This book is a collection of non-fiction by the prolific author Zakes Mda. It showcases his role as a public intellectual with the inclusion of public lectures, essays and media articles. Mda focuses on South Africa’s history and the present, identity and belonging, the art of writing, human rights, global warming and why he is unable to keep silent on abuses of power.

Pages: 278

ISBN: 9781869143800

Joburg Noir is a collection of 20 short stories ranging between seven and twelve pages long. These stories tell of urban legends and myths, love lost and found and wrestling with introspection, self-awareness, sensitivity, identity and the search for meaning through human contact. The collection intension is to help the readers to delve into their own memories in search of pictures of their sweet childhood and fractured identities.

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Bonds of Justice: The Struggle of Oukasie marks the 4th edition of Hidden Voices Series.

Hostels in South Africa: Spaces of Perplexity, this book was written by Nomkhosi Xulu Gama. The book is about the transformation of KwaMashu Hostel in Durban in the twenty-first century – from a single-sex men’s hostel to family accommodation in community residential units. It presents the continuities and discontinuities that take place as hostel-dwellers grapple with everyday livelihood struggles. Read more link: https://amandladurban.org.za/spaces-of-perplexity/