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January 24, 2023
South Africa: Non-Racial South Africa - Book Shows Debate On Nation Building Is Still Relevant Today
There has been much comment recently on the lack of representation of minorities in the leadership structures of South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress… Read more »
December 15, 2022
South Africa: Dear Comrade President - Book Highlights ANC Leader Oliver Tambo's Role in Preparing South Africa for Democracy
More than three decades have passed since the apartheid government in South Africa unbanned the African National Congress (ANC), the country's leading liberation movement, and… Read more »
November 30, 2022
South Africa: Ending HIV As a Public Health Threat - 3 Essential Reads
In 2014 the United Nations set an ambitious goal: to end the AIDS pandemic by the year 2030. Read more »
September 23, 2022
Africa: Hilary Mantel Was One of the Great Voices of Historical Fiction - and So Much More
Dame Hilary Mantel was a writer of immense skill and originality, and her death represents an incalculable loss to British literature. She will be chiefly remembered for her… Read more »
August 30, 2022
South Africa: Corruption in South Africa - New Book Sets Out How Ruling ANC Lost the Battle
One of the greatest benefits of South Africa's democracy is freedom of speech and publication. Mpumelelo Mkhabela's book, The Enemy Within, is the latest in a cascade of… Read more »
August 23, 2022
South Africa: A South African University Publisher Makes It to 100. A Rare and Important Event
In the past month, my email has served up two contrasting examples of the state of scholarly publishing in African countries. The one was an invitation to celebrate the centenary… Read more »
August 07, 2022
South Africa: New Book On Mapungubwe Archive Contests History of South African World Heritage Site
Mapungubwe is a world heritage site and national park located on the border between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. From about 1000 AD the settlement there developed into a… Read more »
July 28, 2022
South Africa: What the U.S. Can Learn From Apartheid-Era Book Bans in South Africa
"Beloved." "The Hate U Give." "Maus." "Burger's Daughter." Read more »
July 27, 2022
Zimbabwe: Noviolet Bulawayo's New Novel Is an Instant Zimbabwean Classic
In Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo's new novel Glory - longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - animals take on human characteristics. Through this she explores what happens when… Read more »
July 13, 2022
Africa: New Book Challenges Whiteness - A Review Through the Cover Image
The cover of The Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness carries a striking image courtesy of South African artist Norman Catherine. The image was created in 2015 as… Read more »
July 06, 2022
Zimbabwe: Ndabaningi Sithole - A Forgotten Intellectual and Leader
Ndabaningi Sithole was one of the founding fathers of the modern state of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. In August 1963, he became the first president of the Zimbabwe African… Read more »
July 04, 2022
South Africa: The Case of the Acclaimed South African Novel That 'Borrows' From Samuel Beckett
Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt: may those who utter our words before us perish. This lighthearted Latin curse speaks a truth many readers and writers have felt: to have our… Read more »
June 07, 2022
East Africa: Four Novelists, One Ocean - How Indian Ocean Literature Can Remap the World
Novels make worlds. They create an intuitive sense and mental image of a place. And the senses of space produced by fiction shape how readers see the world itself, just like maps… Read more »
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