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SOCIO-POLITICAL & HISTORY CATALOGUE 2014
BOOKS AND JOURNALS
Unisa Press offers a wide range of titles in socio-politics and history, a list developed over the
past decade to garner new insights on development in these fields, and to enrich knowledge
production. Our books offer robust and scholarly work reflecting the political, social and
historical landscape in South Africa and the African continent, as well as in other parts of the
world.
Our collection of titles in history is represented by the flagship Hidden Histories Series, which
brings to light insights on political history and personal experiences that would otherwise
have gone undocumented. The driving force behind the series is faith in the value and
importance of the stories – not only to readers in South Africa, but globally, as they offer
previously hidden information, engage reflection, and sometimes challenge our world views
through the individual experiences of the authors.
In conjunction with the South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET), Unisa Press is
also the publisher of the comprehensive series, ‘The Road to Democracy in South Africa’,
a monumental project commissioned by former President Thabo Mbeki in an initiative to
provide a history of the struggle for a fully democratic dispensation in South Africa. All six
volumes have been published. The remaining volumes, V and VI, are still expected in 2014.
A popular range of socio-political titles, published as the Imagined SA Series, includes 19
titles produced since 2004 in celebration of the first decade of a new democracy in South
Africa. Co-published with Brill Academic Publishers in the Netherlands, the series celebrates
South Africans’ multiple critical and creative responses to the new dispensation initiated in
1994.
The African Humanities Programme (AHP) is the recent addition to the Unisa Press Family
and two of the books in the series are expected to be launched in South Africa in 2014.
As a leading scholarly publisher in Africa, Unisa Press is proud of our strategic partnerships
with other leading publishers, including UNU Press, Codesria, as well as various European and
American partners. We welcome such opportunities to cooperate with publishers in Africa
and globally.
Socio-Political & History
History
Table of Contents
Hidden History Series5
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His story is history: Rural village future through the eyes of a rural village boy
6
Robben Island to Wall Street
7
Under protest: The rise of student resistance at Fort Hare
8
Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting, 1873–1936
9
The ANC’s early years: Nation, class and place in South Africa before 1940
10
Because they chose the Plan of God: The story of the Bulhoek Massacre
of 24 May 1921
11
‘To Serve and Protect’: The Inkathagate Scandal
12
Above the Skyline: Reverend Tsietsi Thandekiso and the founding of an African
gay church
13
Christianity and the colonisation of South Africa 1487–1883:
A documentary history Volume 1
14
Christianity and the modernisation of South Africa 1867–1936:
A documentary history Volume 2
15
I listen, I learn, I grow: The autobiography of Ramaphakela Hans Hlalethwa
16
The Corner People of Lady Selborne
17
Writing left: The radical journalism of Ruth First
18
50 Years of the Freedom Charter
19
Rebellion and Uproar: Makhanda and the Great Escape from
Robben Island, 1820
20
The making of an African Communist: Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana
and the Communist Party of South Africa, 1927–1939
21
Unisa Press Catalogue 2014
History
The Guardian: The History of South Africa’s Extraordinary
Anti-Apartheid Newspaper
22
‘Deaf me normal’: Deaf South Africans tell their life stories
23
African Humanities Programme Series
25
Gender terrains in African cinema: A feminist critical perspective
26
What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance
27
Nation and Power and Dissidence in Third Generation Nigerian
Poetry in English
28
General History
29
The Seeds of Separate Development: Origins of Bantu Education
29
Questioning Reputations: Essays on nine Roman republican politicians
30
Against the World: South Africa and Human Rights at the United Nations,
1945–1961
31
Empire & cricket:The South African experience 1884–1914
32
Beyond the Border War: New perspectives on Southern Africa’s
Late-Cold War conflicts
34
Oxwagon Sentinel: Radical Afrikaner Nationalism and the history of the
Ossewabrandwag
35
Volk and Flock: Ecology, Identity and Politics among Cape Afrikaners in the
Late–Nineteenth Century
36
Syracuse in Antiquity: History and Topography
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Hidden History Series
Series editors: Russel Viljoen, Johannes du Bruyn, Nicholas Southey
Unisa Press is proud to publish a series of books on ‘hidden histories’, including
works that probe into phases of history, including the present, that are aimed at
uncovering significant issues and events that have not been recorded, or have been
neglected in existing scholarship or published material. This series is a response to
the gap in South African publishing, in which some works remain inaccessible in
archives or similar collections, or are the product of valuable research which may
not be deemed commercially viable. Some of these works are in African languages
and have not been widely read even in these languages, nor have they ever been
translated. The series will consider all works that make a contribution towards a
better understanding of South Africa’s past and present.
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His story is history: Rural village future
through the eyes of a rural village boy
Tlou Setumu
Having endured a lifetime of struggle from
childhood, through youth and the beginning
of his adult life, South African Tlou Setumu
shares with readers a personal account
of his rural and urban experiences. This
memoir is both the story of rural life and
a chronicle of struggle against poverty for
over three decades.
Find out from this book how many doors
were banged in Tlou Setumu’s face.
Yet he continued his struggle against
poverty, and ended up playing a valuable
role in the preservation of heritage in
Limpopo Province, within South Africa’s
rural community. In spearheading the
development of heritage in Limpopo, he
has left a personal legacy which stands as an
example to his community.
Item 8705, 2011
206 + 4pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-600-5
SA price: R150,00 /
Africa: R169,00 (Airmail incl)
Europe: Contact Eurospan:
www.eurospanbookstore.com/unisa
USA: Contact International
Specialized Book Services.
Book orders: [email protected] /
website www.isbs.com
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`What Setumu gives us in relation to his
memories and experience of rural life is
a portrait of poverty that continues to
ravage most parts of our country. In so
doing, he makes a valuable contribution
to the untold stories of the history of our
land.’
- Mpho ya gaNgoepe
Robben Island to Wall Street
Gaby Magomola
Dr Gaby Magomola’s book reflects on a
critical time in the history of South Africa.
Taking broad lyrical strides across various
major crucial epochs in the history of this
country, Gaby offers an insider’s view of a
number of key events. During the 1960s, the
country was in the grip of various uprisings
leading to the Sharpeville massacre, and the
arrest and incarceration of various leaders
and activists of the day, including the young
Gaby. Some years later, the Soweto uprisings
followed, while during the 80s and early 90s
the repressive reign of PW Botha prevailed
– which later ended with the subsequent
demise of apartheid.
This true account is a significant contribution
to documenting life in apartheid South
Africa. In looking wider than the inside of
Robben Island, as one of South Africa’s most
symbolic centres of incarceration during the
dark days of apartheid, Gaby Magomola
elevates this personal story to a life-affirming
tale of courage and hope for all generations.
Item 8136, 2009
x+324pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-570-1
SA price: R210,00 /
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Under protest:
The rise of student resistance at Fort Hare
Daniel Massey
‘The history of Fort Hare cannot be
retold as if it were one event. It was,
and is, the culmination of a drama of
interpenetrating and, at times, contradictory forces. It was moulded by the
peculiarities of the history of this region
of southern Africa, and the struggles
authored by that history.’ - Oliver Tambo,
1991
Item 8238, 2010
336pp, soft cover
ISBN: 978-1-86888-542-8
Price: SA price: R190,00/
Africa: 204,00 (Airmail incl)
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This book, by Fort Hare alumnus Daniel
Massey, combines a trove of previously
untapped university records with the
recollections of dozens of former students
to dig deep into the complex past of the
institution that educated figures like Tambo,
Nelson Mandela, Mangosuthu Buthelezi
and Robert Mugabe. Through the eyes
of former students, we see just how the
university veered sharply off the course
intended by its missionary founders and
apartheid trustees, giving birth to many of
the most important leaders in South Africa’s
struggle for democracy. Massey interviews
Fort Harians ranging from Govan Mbeki and
Wycliffe Tsotsi to Jeff Baqwa and Thenjiwe
Mtintso, who explain the vital role Fort Hare
played in the development of their activism.
Between Empire and Revolution:
A Life of Sidney Bunting, 1873–1936
Allison Drew
Unisa Press and Pickering and Chatto Ltd
This is the first scholarly biography of
Sidney Bunting. His life offers a unique
perspective on the British Empire, illustrating
the complex social networks and values
that were carried across the world in
the name of empire. The lawyer son of
renowned Wesleyan social activists, Bunting
was radicalised in South Africa. He was a
founding member of the Communist party
and campaigned for black emancipation.
Allison Drew draws on archival material
which has only recently become available,
including the Bunting family papers, records
of Bunting’s Oxford years, trail transcripts
from Bunting’s legal and political career,
and the Comintern archives. The book is
supplemented with a number of historic
photographs, spanning the mid-1890s and
up to his 1929 electoral campaign.
Item 8061, 2009
x + 294pp, soft cover
ISBN: 978-1-86888-571-8
Price: SA price: R220,00 /
Rest of the world:
Contact Pickering & Chatto Ltd,
Tel + 44 (0)20 7405 1005 /
website: www.pickeringchatto.com
e-mail: [email protected]
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The ANC’s early years: Nation, class and
place in South Africa before 1940
Peter Limb
At a time when African National Congressalliance politics are again prominent in
South Africa, this nuanced study of the
intersection of class and African national
forces in the history of Africa’s oldest
national liberation movement helps explain
the deeper origins of this alliance. The book
squarely places African agency at the centre
of South African history and re-casts the
story of the ANC in the words and actions
of its own members and supporters at local
and regional, as well as national, levels. In
doing so, it shines a long overdue light on
ordinary black activists, including politicised
workers and women, and integrates these
stories with those of more well-known
leaders.
Item 8211, 2010,
608pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-529-9
Price: SA R330,00 /
Africa R354,00 (Airmail incl)
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‘Peter Limb’s strikingly original and important book helps recover the voice of
both national and regional ANC leaders
(and, indirectly, that of workers) before
1940 and the exploration of the social
origins, class background and identity of
ANC leaders provides a means of contextualising and explaining ANC leaders’
attitudes to, and political relationship
with, the labouring poor.’
- Paul La Hausse de Lalouvière,
University of Cambridge
Because they chose the Plan of God:
The story of the Bulhoek Massacre
of 24 May 1921
Robert Edgar
The Bulhoek Massacre took place on 24
May 1921. On this day, 800 white police
and soldiers went to forcibly remove a
group of ‘Israelites’ from their holy village
Ntabelanga (‘The Mountain Of The Rising
Sun’), in the Eastern Cape. The Israelites
were led by an African prophet, Enoch
Mgijima. When the Israelites and the police
could not agree, they clashed. The police had
rifles, machine guns and cannons, while the
Israelites could fight back only with sticks,
swords and spears. Within 20 minutes,
nearly 200 Israelites lay dead and many
others were wounded. This event would
soon be called the ‘Bulhoek Massacre’.
Why did this tragedy happen? Look at
the life history of Enoch Mgijima and his
followers, the Israelites, as it is told in this
book. Why did the Israelites settle at
Ntabelanga? Why did the government
oppose them? Why did the government
decide to send an armed force to expel the
Israelites from their holy village? Why were
the Israelites prepared to face this force on
the plain outside Ntabelanga?
This book also available in
isiXhosa
Read this account of events written by a
seasoned author.
Item 8212, 2010
80pp, soft cover
ISBN: 978-1-86888-663-0
Price: SA R150,00 /
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‘To Serve and Protect’:
The Inkathagate Scandal
as told to Laurence Piper by Brian Morrow
The Inkathagate crisis of 1991 brought
about the transition to a democratic South
Africa sooner than would otherwise have
been the case, at a lower cost to human
life, and on terms preferred by the majority.
Inkathagate was the work of one man,
Brian Morrow, who at the time had been
conscripted into the Security Branch (SB)
of the South African Police in Durban.
Outraged by the racism, corruption and
torture rife in the SB, Brian resolved to
expose the reality of apartheid hidden
from white South Africa and the world.
Somewhat fortuitously, he stumbled across
the Inkatha files and covertly copied them
before fleeing the country and handing
them to the media in 1991.
Item 8655, 2011
84 +11pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-605-0
Price: SA R110,00 /
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‘That a security policeman exposed
Inkathagate; without financial compensation or public recognition, is remarkable. ‘Inkathagate … is one of the rare
cases where the source had nothing to
gain and everything to lose, but did it
only out of good conscience.’
- Anton Harber
Above the Skyline: Reverend Tsietsi
Thandekiso and the founding of an
African gay church
Graeme Reid
Through a detailed ethnographic study
of a black Pentecostal church during the
period 1995 to 1997, Above the Skyline
demonstrates how a particular South African
church community created the possibility of
an integrated cultural identity for gay and
lesbian Christians in an African context. By
adopting the rhetoric, style and rituals of
Pentecostal worship, the church provides
an effective counter-narrative to persistent
claims that homosexuality is
‘un-Christian’ and ‘un-African’.
Reverend Thandekiso drew a parallel
between the HUMCC and the African
Independent churches, which had in
common ‘the syncretic way that black
churches combine culture and Christianity’.
Using this syncretic method, the HUMCC
began to develop ways in which both African
tradition and Christian ritual could be given
symbolic expression, while at the same
bringing in a further dimension – a theology
in which a gay and lesbian identity could be
affirmed.
Item 8358, 2011
ISBN 978-1-86888-435-3
Price: SA R210,00 /
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Christianity and the colonisation of South
Africa 1487–1883: A documentary history
Volume 1
Charles Villa-Vicencio
and Peter Grassow
Initial religious encounters between
the settlers in southern Africa and the
indigenous inhabitants entailed the
establishment of settler churches and their
relationships with their home countries.
This era therefore saw little by way of the
spread of Christianity. However, with the
arrival of Johannes van der Kemp and other
missionaries from the London Missionary
Society in 1799, Christianity began to cross
colonial boundaries, marking the great era
of missions in southern Africa.
Item 8050, 2009,
359pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-399-8
Price: SA R 350,00 /
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At the outset, the missionary presence
remained precariously perched between
success and failure. While missionary
influence among the indigenous peoples
was relatively insignificant, the opposite
was true within the colony. At the same
time, expansion pressures from the
Cape precipitated growing conflict between
settlers and indigenous peoples. Increasingly,
missionaries were caught between the
interests of indigenous peoples and those of
the colony.
Christianity and the modernisation of South
Africa 1867–1936: A documentary history
Volume 2
JW de Gruchy
Rather than providing a mere chronological
account of events and devoting equal space
to various denominations, John de Gruchy
sets out to map and reflect the fact that
some churches and Christian traditions have
been far more influential in shaping South
African society than others.
Working from some 3 500 primary
documents relevant to understanding the
role of Christianity in forming South Africa,
dating from the mid-seventeenth century,
the author offers an introduction to the final
three decades of the nineteenth century, and
the beginnings of modernisation. During
this time the country was transformed from
a primarily rural and traditional society into
one which was increasingly urban, industrial
and capitalist.
This was also a moment of transition
for Christian missionary endeavour and
the formation of the colonial churches.
This volume sets out not to explore the
various theologies which have emerged
in this period, but rather to consider the
way in which theology functioned in the
construction of modern South Africa.
Item 8052, 2009
388pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-440-7
Price: SA R350,00 /
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I listen, I learn, I grow: The autobiography
of Ramaphakela Hans Hlalethwa
This remarkable life story offers an insight
into life as it was in South Africa at the
time when Ramaphakela Hans Hlalethwa
grew up; capturing family life and values,
with vivid descriptions of both comical
situations and tragic events. We follow
Hlalethwa in his hard slog to succeed at his
chosen profession: education. Hlalethwa
shares his experiences of the apartheid
years: white prejudice, police action, arrests
and detentions, sabotage and meetings,
the so called ‘political funerals’ of the 80s
and much more. Those citizens who now,
post- 1994, can live free lives and who do
not know what a passbook is, will find this
book an eye-opener. Throughout his life,
Hlalethwa’s religious belief shines brightly,
culminating in his ordination as a Deacon in
the Catholic Church.
Item 8032, 2009
125pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-541-1
Price: SA R160,00 /
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His parish church in Soshanguve became
almost as famous as Regina Mundi in
Soweto as a centre for activism and
opposition to the hated Apartheid system,
where he also was a fieldworker for the
Justice and Peace Commission of the
Pretoria Archdiocese. This is a most readable
description of a life, which includes a set of
unique and historic personal photographs,
and is narrated in the author’s very own way
of telling it as it was.
The Corner People of Lady Selborne
John Mojapelo
Lady Selborne was a comparatively small
place, situated in an area on the slopes of
the gentle Magaliesberg mountains, to
the west of the city centre of Pretoria. The
township was approximately two square
kilometres in extent. A rivulet called Swart
Spruit ran lazily from west to east, along the
southern border of the township. This was a
scenic and fertile area, with pleasant weather
throughout the year.
From anywhere in the township, people
had a view of the city centre, with the
imposing Union Buildings – the seat of
government – on the horizon. By 1942,
the multiracial Lady Selborne was home
to about 22 000 people, the majority of
whom were Northern Sotho, but it also
included Nguni, Shangaan, coloured, Indian,
white and Chinese people. It was to become
the largest Group Areas Act dispossession
project in Pretoria. Author John Seakalala
Mojapelo dedicates the book ‘to the 3,5
million victims of the heartless social
engineering policy enforced through the
pernicious Group Areas Act by the former
white minority government in Pretoria, and
particularly those in Lady Selborne’.
Item 8043, 2009
295pp, softcover
ISBN 9781-86888-560-2
Price: SA R330,00 /
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Writing left: The radical journalism of Ruth
First
Donald Pinnock
Item 7743, 2007
284pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-365-3
Price: SA R200,00 /
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The radical press which helped to end
Apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s
was not an immaculate conception. It was
born of traditions developed by a group of
small newspapers which emerged in the
1940s and were battered into silence by
the early 1960s. Many of the journalists
and editors from these earlier publications
were imprisoned or driven into exile and
emerged, in 1994, as the leaders of a new,
democratic South Africa. One of the most
influential journalists of that press tradition
did not return. In 1983, Ruth First was killed
by a letter bomb sent to her Mozambique
office by white police operatives. In a flash
of powerful explosive, South Africa lost one
of its most intelligent, incisive and dedicated
journalists. This is a book about her role in
the struggle for a free and committed press
with heart.
50 Years of the Freedom Charter
Raymond Suttner and
Jeremy Cronin
The main body of the text, initially prepared
in 1986, has been left unaltered, but the
authors have added a substantial new
introduction and a bibliography of some
of the literature that was not then available
within the country or emerged after the
publication of the book. The authors met
in Pretoria Security Prison, both jailed for
ANC underground activities. Both have
published extensively. Jeremy Cronin is an
award-winning poet, his most recent work
being Inside and Outside (1999). Raymond
Suttner has published Inside Apartheid’s
Prison (2001) and various scholarly works.
Currently Suttner is attached to the History
Department of the University of South Africa
in Pretoria and Cronin is an ANC member
of Parliament, and Deputy General Secretary
of the South African Communist Party.
Item 7707, 2006
272pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-375-2
Price: SA R230,00 /
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Rebellion and Uproar: Makhanda and the
Great Escape from Robben Island, 1820
Julia Wells
Item 7750, 2007
59pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-368-4
Price: SA R70,00 /
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The name of Makhanda has long been
associated with the unyielding spirit of
resistance against the oppression of African
people. Many have compared him to Nelson
Mandela. As a warrior-prophet of the Xhosa
people, Makhanda led a monumental attack
against British forces in Grahamstown in
1819. His reputation as an indomitable
freedom fighter was sealed when he
escaped from Robben Island in1820. This
volume tells the story of that escape, both
exploding the myths that came to surround
it and providing new detail about what
really happened. The artists of the Egazini
Outreach Project, living in Grahamstown
today, have captured their feelings about
these dramatic stories in visual images.
The book contains reproductions of 16 art
works specially created around the story of
Makhanda.
The making of an African Communist: Edwin
Thabo Mofutsanyana and the Communist
Party of South Africa, 1927–1939
Robert Edgar
The book is a short biography covering part
of Mofutsanyana’s eventful life, a period of
turbulence within the Communist Party of
South Africa, of which Mofutsanyana was at
one point General Secretary. Edgar bases his
account on extensive archival work both in
South Africa as well as Russia, and has some
notable interview material.
‘This work makes a very important
contribution to the understanding of opposition politics in the interwar period. It
is based almost exclusively on original research by the author, including extensive
interviews with Mofutsanyana. It throws
new light on the internal politics of the
Communist Party, in particular the relationships between blacks and whites in
the organisation. It also gives a personal
and political portrait of an important
African leader about who, very little has
been published.’
– Gail Gerhart, Columbia University
Item 7371, 2005
58pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-331-8
Price: SA R90,00 /
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The Guardian: The History of South Africa’s
Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid Newspaper
James Zug
In this fascinating history of the Guardian,
South Africa’s famous anti-apartheid
newspaper, James Zug tells the story of a
political publication that not only reported
events, but also helped to shape them.
Between 1937 and 1963, the Guardian
was the sole voice of dissent in the South
African media, and Zug shows us how it
played an essential role in the struggle to
end apartheid.
Item 7860, 2007, 400pp with
photographs, soft cover
ISBN: 978-1-86888-480-3
SA price: R220,00 /
USA: Contact Michigan State
University Press.
Tel 517/355-9543
website: msupress.msu.edu/index.html /
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Combining a scholar’s attention to facts
with a journalist’s sense of the dramatic,
Zug recreates a tumultuous and dangerous
era. As Zug explains, the Guardian
persisted through the harassment and
torment, because the paper’s staff knew
the significance of their work: ‘We not only
record the struggle for freedom, we are
actively participating in it.’ This highly
readable work is more than a perceptive
look at an influential paper. It is a testament
to the power of the printed word in ending
injustice and changing the course of history.
‘Deaf me normal’:
Deaf South Africans tell their life stories
Edited by Ruth Morgan
Prior to 2007, no books had been written
on the culture and history of deaf people
in South Africa. This groundbreaking
book within the Hidden Histories Series
came about with the help of a group of
courageous deaf people, who entrusted
their stories to author Ruth Morgan and her
team. It provides a direct window into the
experiences, perceptions and world view of
the deaf narrators.
‘We never had a Truth and Reconciliation
Commission for Deaf people. There is
nothing for the Deaf community. Deaf
people were affected but they were not
given an opportunity.’
– Gavin Johnson.
As part of an oral history project, Deaf me
normal builds a bridge between the deaf
and the hearing worlds, so that hearing
people can access the hidden lives of deaf
South Africans. The social discrimination
against deaf people during apartheid
resulted in their extreme marginalisation
and the silencing of their experiences. Deaf
people in South Africa, have a culture with
a long and rich oral folk tradition, based on
the use of SASL. As in other cultures with
an oral tradition, the language is used in
face-to-face interactions and does not have
a written form.
Item 8379, 2008
xv+277pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-435-3
Price: SA R190,00
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African Humanities Series
Series editors:
Kwesi Yankah and Fred Hendricks
The African Humanities Series is a partnership between Unisa Press and the
African Humanities Program of the American Council of Learned Societies.
The series covers topics in African histories, languages, literatures, and cultures.
Submissions are solicited from Fellows of the African Humanities Program (AHP),
which is administered by the American Council of Learned Societies and financially
supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. There are over 100 African
scholars participating as Fellows in the AHP.
The purpose of the AHP is to encourage and enable production of new knowledge
by Africans in the five countries designated by Carnegie Corporation: Ghana,
Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. AHP fellowships support one year’s
work, free from teaching and other responsibilities, to allow the Fellow to complete
the project proposed.
Successfully completed manuscripts are submitted to the AHP editorial board,
which chooses manuscripts to be forwarded to UNISA Press. In some cases,
the AHP board will commission substantive editing and/or re-organisation of
manuscripts.
The African Humanities Series aims to publish work of the highest quality that will
foreground the best research being done by emerging scholars (within five years of
receiving their Ph.D. degree, which is the AHP eligibility requirement). The rigorous
selection process before the fellowship award, as well as AHP editorial vetting of
manuscripts, assures attention to quality. Books in the series are intended to speak
to scholars in Africa as well as in other world areas.
The AHP is also committed to providing a copy of each publication in the series to
every university library in Africa.
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Gender Terrains in African Cinema:
A Feminist Critical Perspective
Dominica Dipio
Gender Terrains in African Cinema: A
Feminist Critical Perspective reflects on
a body of canonical African filmmakers
who address a trajectory of pertinent
social issues. Dipio analyses gender
relations around three categories of female
characters – the girl child, the young woman
and the elderly woman and their male
counterparts. Although gender remains the
focal point in this lucid and fascinating text,
Dipio engages attention in her discussion
of African feminism in relation to Western
feminism. With its broad appeal to African
humanities, Gender Terrains in African
Cinema stands as a unique and radical
contribution to the field of (African) film
studies, which until now, has suffered from a
paucity of scholarship.
Item xxxx, 2014
242pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-735-4
Price: SA R320 (incl VAT) |
Africa R351 | USD $35 |
GBP £21 | Euro €26
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What the Forest Told Me: Yoruba Hunter,
Culture and Narrative Performance
Ayo Adeduntan
Studies of Yoruba culture and performance
tend to focus mainly on standardised
forms of performance, and ignore the
more prevalent performance culture
which is central to everyday life. What the
forest told me conveys the elastic nature
of African cultural expression through
narratives of the Yoruba hunters’ exploits.
Hunters’ narratives provide a window on the
Yoruba understanding and explanation of
their world, a cosmology that negates the
anthropocentric view of creation. In a very
literal sense man, in this peculiar world, is
equal actor with animal and nature spirits
with whom he constantly contests and
negotiates space.
Adeduntan offers new insights into key
aspects of Yoruba culture, while providing
a close appraisal of particular texts and
contexts of oral performance forms. In doing
so, he presents a fresh view of the poetics of
oral performance, rising above generalisation
and mere description.
Item xxxx, 2014
150pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-739-2
Price: SA R230 (incl VAT) |
Africa R242 | USD $24 |
GBP £15 | Euro €16
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Nation, Power and Dissidence in Third
Generation Nigerian Poetry in English
Sule Egya
Nation, Power and Dissidence in Third
Generation Nigerian Poetry in English is
a theoretical and analytical survey of the
poetry that emerged in Nigeria in the 1980s.
Hurt into poetry, the poets collectively raise
aesthetics of resistance that dramatises the
nationalist imagination bridging the gap
between poetry and politics in Nigeria. The
emerging generation of poetic voices raises
an outcry against the repressive military
regimes of the 1980s and 1990s. Ingrained
in the tradition of protest literature in Africa,
the third-generation poetry is presented here
as part of the cultural struggles that unseat
military despotism and envisage a democratic
society.
Item 7743, 2007
284pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-365-3
Price: SA R200,00 /
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Not only does Egya place emphasis on the
poetry’s interaction with the culture and
history of military oppression in Nigeria −
an interaction that sees the poetry not only
feeding from the history but also feeding
it; he also contextualises the generational
consciousness of these poets. Scholars of
Nigerian literature, African literature, and
researchers interested in world literatures will
welcome Nation, Power and Dissidence in
Third Generation Nigerian Poetry in English
as an invaluable contribution to indigenous
knowledge, critical studies in Africa, and the
rehabilitation and production of an African
aesthetic.
General History
The Seeds of Separate Development:
Origins of Bantu Education
Cynthia Kros
As the memory of Apartheid recedes,
it becomes ever harder to capture what
philosopher Hannah Arendt might have
described as its appearance of normality –
which is not to deny in any sense that it was
a cruel and destructive system which has
left a deeply ingrained legacy of bitterness
and harm in its wake. But, how was it that
so many people who thought of themselves
as just and decent citizens subscribed to the
ideas of Apartheid, and believed that it was
the only way in which South Africa’s many
diverse ‘communities’ could live in harmony?
This book, through tracking the intellectual
development of one of Apartheid’s deftest
ideologues, W. W. M. Eiselen, explores how
the seeds of separate development were
sown in at least one quarter of Apartheid’s
toxic fields, and the conditions under which
they began to take root.
Item 8210, 2010
214pp, soft cover
ISBN: 978-1-86888-552-0
Price: SA R210,00 /
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General History
Questioning Reputations: Essays on nine
Roman republican politicians
Richard J Evans
Winner: Hiddingh-Currie Award
for Academic Excellence
The reputations of a great many figures in
history have been established by chance
and opportunity: a single victory on the
battlefield, a political triumph in domestic
affairs. This statement is equally applicable
to that century between 146 and 31 BC,
which today is usually designated the Late
Roman Republic. On the basis of often
rather meagre facts, reputations have been
constructed and, as a result, whole careers
became mythologised by later writers, even
in antiquity. The main aim of this volume is
to question certain reputations in order to
place into a more realistic historical context
the subjects under discussion.
Item 6891, 2003
230pp, soft cover
ISBN 1-86888-198-9
Price: SA R190,00 /
Europe: GB£20.30 / €28.00
USA: $32.00
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General History
Against the World: South Africa
and Human Rights at the United Nations,
1945–1961
Jeremy Shearar
‘A sophisticated and highly nuanced
study which...offers new insight and
understanding not only of South Africa’s
constantly anomalous situation within
the world body but of the domestic personalities and the reasons for their acting
in an often apparently inexplicable way.’
- Neville Botha, Professor of
International Law, UNISA
Against the World is an in-depth
investigation into the circumstances of
South Africa’s steady isolation in the United
Nations, from a respected member in 1945
to a ‘pariah’ in the early sixties.
The author examines Field-Marshall J.C.
Smuts’s proposal in 1945 for the adoption
of a Preamble to the United Nations
Charter, tracks South Africa’s refusal to sign
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
in 1948, and looks at how global criticism
against Apartheid increased in intensity, until
in 1960 it culminated in calls from African
members for economic and diplomatic
sanctions. By 1961, when the study ends,
South Africa had become isolated in the
United Nations and relegated to a moral
wilderness.
Item 8428, 2011
416pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888- 598-5
Price: SA R280,00 /
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General History
Empire & cricket:
The South African experience 1884–1914
Bruce Murray & Goolam Vahed
Nominated and short-listed (top five) for
the MCC UK and Cricket Society Sports
Book of the Year 2009
‘A refreshing, original work that contributes significantly to new understandings
of the early history of cricket in South
Africa, as well as cricket in the `Mother
Country’ and other parts of the globe
previously painted red.’
- Andre Odendaal, CEO,
Western Province Cricket Association
Item 8030, 2009
326pp, soft cover
Includes a collection of rare
historical photographs.
ISBN 978-1-86888-435-3
Price: SA R320,00 /
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Empire and Cricket illuminates the complex
relationship between the British Empire and
cricket, and in particular in the making of
South African society, between 1884 and
1914. This is the gripping story of how
cricket lay at the heart of social and political
developments in South Africa and the wider
Empire, enlivened by numerous historic
photographs of players and cricketing
sites. The book’s contributors – from the
UK, South Africa and Australia – describe
how cricket acted as a vehicle for Empire,
and explore its impact on race and class.
It maps the role of the small and tightly
knit white elite with overlapping interests
in cricket, politics and business, as well as
the largely ignored world of ‘non-white’
General History
(African, coloured and Indian) cricketers and
politicians.
The close connection between politics and
cricket goes back to the emergence of
South Africa as a Test-playing country in the
late-nineteenth century. Cape Prime Minister
Cecil John Rhodes included cricket in his
drive to impose a segregationist structure
in the African sub-continent, and together
with his acolytes in the Western Province
cricket establishment successfully blocked
the inclusion of the coloured fast bowler,
H. ‘Krom’ Hendricks, in the South African
teams of 1894 and 1895.
Thereafter segregation was imposed
on Cape cricket, effectively ensuring the
segregationist future of South African cricket
for much of the twentieth century. The feats
of those who first placed South African
cricket on the international map are recalled,
along with those like Hendricks who
never had the chance to perform on the
international stage. The book explores the
widespread enthusiasm for cricket among
all of South Africa’s communities, and the
passion and success with which blacks
played the game.
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General History
Beyond the Border War:
New perspectives on Southern Africa’s
Late-Cold War conflicts
Edited by Gary Baines
and Peter Vale
For some fifteen years, little attention has
been paid to South Africa’s late-Cold War
conflicts and the memories of soldiers
who fought in them. Likewise, combatants
with the liberation movements have all but
been forgotten or otherwise marginalised
in the new political dispensation. But the
recent controversy over the exclusion of the
names of SADF soldiers from the Freedom
Park memorial wall, and the popularity of
publications and the existence of Internet
sites that host personal accounts of the
war suggest that there is significant public
interest in these matters. The discovery
of mass graves and questions about the
treatment of detainees in SWAPO camps
has kept the war in the public eye in
Namibia.
Item 8416, 2008
vii+486pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-456-8
Price: SA R280,00 /
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This volume offers new perspectives on
the Border War, through the paradigms of
diplomatic and military history, cultural and
literary studies. Contributors to this volume
have challenged the boundaries, broken
the silences, and even tackled some taboos
about the war.
General History
Oxwagon Sentinel: Radical Afrikaner
Nationalism and the history of the
Ossewabrandwag
Christoph Marx
The Boer ox wagon was the most important
means of conveyance for the white
population of South Africa. Without it the
Great Trek of the 1830s could not have
taken place. A hundred years later, however,
the Afrikaner nationalism that emerged
after the Anglo-Boer War adopted the ox
wagon as a national symbol – an emblem
of the pioneering spirit, the will to freedom,
republicanism and resistance to British
imperialism. This book provides an analysis
of the complex structures favouring the
rise of Afrikaner nationalism. The first part
consists of six chapters on the long-term
developments and continuities that survived
the political watershed of the Anglo-Boer
War. The industrialisation of South Africa
received an important boost after World
War I, yet this led to wide-ranging and
fundamental social transformations.
The second part analyses the mid- and
short-term developments that led to a
radicalisation of nationalism.
Item 7912, 2008
xii+654pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-453-7
Price: SA R420,00 /
Europe and USA: Contact LIT
Verlag. Tel 0251 62032 22 /
website www.lit-verlag.de /
e-mail [email protected]
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General History
Volk and Flock: Ecology, Identity and
Politics among Cape Afrikaners in the
Late–Nineteenth Century
Mordechai Tamarkin
Item 8057, 2009
236pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-451-3
SA price: R180,00 /
Africa: R 195,00 (Airmail incl)
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This study centres on the opposition of
the majority Afrikaner sheep farmers in
the 1890s to legislation affecting their
stock farming pursuit. These farmers left,
unusually, an amazingly rich body of written
evidence. This offered the author a unique
opportunity to explore the elusive process
of ethnic consciousness formation among
ordinary Afrikaners. Ethnic identity among
Cape Afrikaner sheep farmers was forged,
as is invariably the case, along the fault lines
between them and the English-speaking
settlers and the colonial government led by
Cecil Rhodes. The ethnic consciousness of
Afrikaner sheep farmers opposing the Act
evolved against Afrikaner others with whom
they shared cultural affinity, but whom
they vehemently opposed on issues related
to sheep farming. Along these complex
fault lines, they developed their version
of Afrikaner identity and consciousness
with a particular ontology, a particular
understanding of the relations between
the ecology and the farmer, an outlook
about a proper Afrikaner way of life and a
conception of ethnic morality.
General History
Syracuse in Antiquity:
History and Topography
Richard J Evans
Syracuse was the largest and most powerful
of all the cities established by the Greeks
in Sicily. Its history, often violent but always
colourful, is recounted by both Greek
and Roman historians; its coinage is justly
famous, and its extensive remains continue
to fascinate visitors to the city.
The object of this work is to retell aspects
of the history of Syracuse, with particular
reference to the topography of the city
and its surrounding countryside. In order
to acquaint or re-acquaint the reader with
the impressive architectural monuments of
Syracuse and to contextualise these in their
geographical environment, comprehensive
use is made of visual material contained in
an accompanying CD.
Richard J Evans is a lecturer in Ancient
History in the School of History and
Archaeology at Cardiff University, UK. Until
2005 he taught in the Department of
Classics and European Languages at the
University of South Africa, where he remains
an Academic Associate. His main interests
are Roman republican history, and classical
and Hellenistic Sicily.
Book with CD, including
maps and illustrations
Item 8036, 2009
viii+169pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-407-0
Price: SA R210,00 /
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General History
Other titles available:
The Strangers of New Bell p94
From Columbus to Castro p89
Capitalism and slavery p88
The last Frontier War: Braklaagte and the struggle for land before, during and
after Apartheid p108
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General History
Back list titles
Communities at the margin: Studies in rural society and migration in
Southern Africa, 1890–1980
Edited by JA Jeeves and JM Kalinga
Item 6972, 2002, 268pp, soft cover | ISBN 1- 86888-226-8
Price: SA R220,00 / Africa: R229,00 (Airmail incl)
Europe: GB£23.10 / €31.70 | USA: $36.20
Cracking the sky: A history of rocket science in South Africa
Desmond Prout-Jones
Item 6847, 2002, 192pp, soft cover | ISBN 1-86888-203-9
Europe: GB£10.90 / €15.00 | USA: $17.20
From protest to challenge: A documentary history of African politics in South
Africa 1882–1990. Volume 5: Nadir and resurgence, 1964–1979
Thomas G Karis and Gail M Gerhart
Item 7733, reprinted 2008, 840pp, hard cover | ISBN 1- 86888-017-6
Europe: GB£36.32 / €48.42 | USA: $62.26
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Imagined South Africa Series
Table of Contents
Imagined South Africa series42
40
Intertextuality, violence and memory in Yizo Yizo: Youth TV drama
43
The Mandela Decade 1990–2000: Labour, Culture and Society in
Post-Apartheid South Africa
44
Sister Outsiders: Identity and difference in the writings of South African
Indian women
45
Brief Chronicles: South African Literatures in historical context
46
Fragile Freedom: South African democracy 1994–2004
47
The Disenfranchised: Perspectives on the History of Elections in South Africa
48
Johannesburg: The making and shaping of the city
49
Post-Apartheid Fragments: Law, politics and critique
50
Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Cultureand its Aftermath
51
Making the Changes: Jazz in South African literature and reportage
52
South Africa in the Global Imaginary
52
The Law of Commoners and Kings: Narratives of a rural Transkei magistrate
53
On Becoming a Democracy: Transition and transformation in
South African society
53
Voices that Reason: Theoretical parables 54
Predicaments of Culture in South Africa
54
Segregation and Singularity: Politics and its context among white, middle-class
English-speakers in late-Apartheid Johannesburg
55
Hear our Voices: Race, gender and the status of Black South African women
in academy
55
Cape Flats Details: Life and culture in the townships of Cape Town
56
Democracy X: Marking the present; re-presenting the past
57
41
Imagined South Africa series
Series Editor: Abebe Zegeye
In April 2004, South Africa celebrated the 10th anniversary of its new democratic
non-racial society. As part of the process of democratising knowledge production,
Unisa Press announced a series of books and photographic exhibitions entitled
‘Imagined South Africa’. This series celebrates the multiple ways in which South
Africans of all colours and ideological persuasions have been responding, either
critically or creatively, to the new dispensation ushered in 1994. Some of the
books in the series tackle head on the exploitative legacies of Apartheid, while
others attempt to form a new idiom on intellectual freedom that is wired to, and
comments on, the ‘political forces’ responsible for further democratising the new
South Africa.
The Imagined South Africa series is co-published with Brill Academic Publishers,
with support from Unisa’s Centre for African Renaissance Studies.
Unisa Overseas clients should contact
Brill Academic Publishers to order these titles:
www.brill.nl, e-mail: [email protected] (USA) or [email protected] (Rest of World)
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Intertextuality, violence and memory
in Yizo Yizo: Youth TV drama
Muff Andersson
This book offers an innovative analysis of a
youth TV programme through the world
of the producers, the text itself and the way
audiences read texts, giving readers a unique
tool for a more nuanced reading of African
popular culture. Muff Andersson argues
that African popular culture is modern,
sophisticated, cutting edge and steeped in
complex intertextual referencing to other
African and world texts. Her analysis is a
far cry from the usual uneasy positioning
of popular culture between ‘tradition’ and
‘modernity’. She illustrates advances in
African technology – ways of linking the past
to the present and the immediate world of
the audience – barely explored in dominant
cultures.
This timely comment on culture
simultaneously theorises the issues
affecting youths in cities – issues of identity,
xenophobia, sexuality, Aids, unemployment,
lack of support – and suggests that youth in
Africa live and grow in a society composed
of a series of ‘violences’, around which they
must arrange themselves.
Item 8201, 2010
228pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-538-1
Price: SA R210,00 /
Africa R221,00
Overseas orders should be
directed to Brill Academic
Publishers at www.brill.nl,
e-mail: [email protected] (USA) or
[email protected] (Rest of World)
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The Mandela Decade 1990–2000: Labour, Culture and Society in Post-Apartheid
South Africa
Ari Sitas
Sitas was a participant observer of the social
changes addressed in this book. On 25
February 1990, hardly a week after Nelson
Rolihlahla Mandela’s release from prison,
Sitas was there when Mandela told the 200
000-strong crowd at King’s Park Stadium
in Durban to throw their guns into the sea.
After five years of extreme violence and civil
war in the province, what the majority had
expected was the arrival of a decisive and
avenging Mandela. In the popular storytelling tradition, the release of the hero
was to make the homesteads whole again,
wrong would be made right, the shredded
would be stitched up again and the enemy
routed.
Going beyond poetry, Sitas addresses
Mandela’s charisma, reconciliation, and
‘new’ forms of thinking about the South
African nation and its meanings.
Item 8313, 2011,
ISBN 978-1-86888-558-9
Price: SA R240,00 /
directed to
Brill Academic Publishers
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Sister Outsiders: Identity and difference in
the writings of South African Indian women
Devarakshanam Govinden
Winner: Hiddingh-Currie Award for
Academic Excellence (2009) and
nominated for the Sunday Times Alan
Paton Non-Fiction awards 2009
Sister outsiders draws attention to a
neglected corpus of writing in South
African literary criticism. The focus is on
the exclusion of Indian women’s writings
in South Africa, which must be seen as
a dimension of the larger exclusion of
women’s writings, white and black, from
South African literature in general.
The book provides an historical account
of the events that contributed to the
marginalisation of black literature –
specifically Indian women’s literature –
amongst other things, the institutionalisation
of English Studies which affected the
reading and reception of texts written by
Indian women, and the construction of an
indigenous English literary tradition that did
not include black writers as much as it did
white writers of English descent, writing
about South African experiences.
Item 7238, 2008
385pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-296-0
Price: SA R240,00 /
Publishers
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Brief Chronicles: South African
Literatures in historical context
Kenneth Parker
This is a finely-woven set of essays on
South African literatures, addressing a
kaleidoscopic range of disciplines spanning
literature, history, cultural criticism and
journalism.
Item 8060, 2009
252pp, soft cover
ISBN 978- 1-86888-405-6
Price: SA R310,00 /
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‘…some of the most relevant and
re-visionary literary criticism of South
African writing I have encountered…
The author’s intimate knowledge of the
socio-historical and political contexts in
which the texts under review came into
being transcends that of documented
history. His personal involvement in
precisely that socio-historical moment as
a so-called black South
African (albeit of Indian decent), and de
facto thus a member of the ‘disadvantaged’ community, which so many of the
authors (whether black or white) under
review were at pains to represent, and
later as an intellectual in exile, makes
him singularly well positioned to interrogate and to reinterpret either criticism
of several seminal texts. His project is to
explore the critical and ideological assumptions embedded not only in a large
number of South African novels, but also
in the criticism thereof.’
– Prof Rosemary Gray
Fragile Freedom: South African
democracy 1994–2004
Edited by Allan Jeeves
and Greg Cuthbertson
Fragile Freedom contributes to the critical
debates in South Africa among intellectuals
and policy makers on the meanings and
sustainability of core democratic principles.
As such, the book links intimately to the
current political and intellectual debate
which many analysts expect will determine
the political future of South Africa for
years to come. In contrast to the many
complementary publications which have
appeared since 2004, its wide international
authorship provides a global perspective. The
book represents a serious attempt to match
global and local case studies, to achieve an
analytical balance as well as to reflect on
the experiences of grassroots communities.
Its fifteen chapters, written by leading
academics, reflect historically on many
of the main features of the Mandela and
Mbeki eras, such as land reform, the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the
HIV/AIDS controversy, political corruption,
different aspects of nation-building and
identity politics, the emergence of the black
middle class, and the changing fortunes of
African National Congress (ANC) power.
Item 8039, 2009
262pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-410-0
Price: SA R250,00 /
47
The Disenfranchised: Perspectives on
the History of Elections in South Africa
Archie Mafeje
This collection of essays provides a
fascinating alternative view of the
recent political history of South Africa,
as manifested in events leading up to
the broadening of democracy through
the enfranchisement of all its citizens.
Focusing on the first voting experiences
of the previously disenfranchised, it is
written from the point of view of those
disadvantaged by the apartheid regime, and
who were excluded from the vote, offering
a controversial but previously overlooked
vantage point.
Item 7937, 2008
xii + 170pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888- 441-4
Price: SA R230,00 /
48
Significant recent political events are
exposed – such as CODESA, the main
negotiations preceding the expansion of
democracy with the first representative
elections in 1994. A wide range of issues is
addressed; such as the question of whether
South African politics is driven by ethnicity
or nationalism, the nature of competition
among political parties, and whether
South Africa may be drifting towards a
one-party political system. The electoral
system is compared with others, while
also considering aspects such as political
participation and the ‘marginalised masses’,
both black and female.
Johannesburg: The making and
shaping of the city
Keith Beavon
Much has been written on various aspects of
life and lifestyles in Johannesburg, covering
the period from 1886 to 2003. Yet until
now no single text has attempted to bring
the available material together to reveal the
unfolding geography of the city, from its days
as a mining camp to its present position as
premier metropolis of the African continent.
This book draws together a wide range of
material to fill this niche.
Item 7243, 2004
392pp, soft cover
ISBN 1-86888-303-5
Price: SA R210,00 /
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Post-Apartheid Fragments: Law, politics
and critique
Edited by Wessel Le Roux
and Karin van Marle
Item 7676, 2007
xiv+ 188pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-405-6
Price: SA R180,00/
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The essays contained in this book
investigate different aspects of postapartheid South African law, politics and
society. Written by a group of South
African legal scholars, these essays explore
how the struggle for transformation and
social justice in the country continues to
impact on the politics of reconciliation, the
memorial resistances to the new human
rights culture, the design and iconography
of post-apartheid courtroom architecture,
the post-apartheid property rights discourse,
and the developing equality jurisprudence
of the South African Constitutional
Court. The volume illustrates both why
and how theoretical thinking about law
should remain engaged with politics and
the question of the political. No easy
answers are offered nor are facile promises
made. Deeper questions are tackled, and
continuous questioning and thought are
encouraged. The book concludes with an
essay on spectres of `Communism’ in PostApartheid South Africa.
Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture
and its Aftermath
Louise Bethlehem
This book traces the responses to the
emergent paradigm of South African
literary studies from the 1970s onwards.
Embedded in the influential critical texts of
the field, it claims, are hidden narratives – of
land, race, gender, desire and embodiment.
This volume explores these submerged
dimensions of South African literary history
and the influence they continue to exert
well into the post-Apartheid era. It suggests
that significant continuities exist between
late-Apartheid and post-Apartheid literary
culture, and positions these against the
interpretive horizon of South Africa’s Truth
and Reconciliation Commission.
Item 7675, 2006,
145pp, soft cover
ISBN 1-86888-408-2
Price: SA R180,00 /
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Making the Changes: Jazz in South African
literature and reportage
Michael Titlestad
Making the changes maps jazz discourse from the
legendary élan vital of the Sophiatown writers, through
the King Kong reportage and white writing, to the
agonised poetics of exile. The book then considers the
role of dissonance in resistance writing of the Soweto
poets of the 1970s and the Staffrider generation of the
1980s.
Item 7233, 2004, 275pp, soft cover |
ISBN 1-86888-291-8
Overseas orders should be directed to Brill Academic
Publishers at www.brill.nl, e-mail: [email protected] (USA) or
South Africa in the Global Imaginary
Edited by Leon de Kock,
Louise Bethlehem and Sonja Laden
South Africa in the global imaginary is an award-winning
collection of essays about culture and identity seen
through the lens of post-Apartheid South Africa. When
it was first published as a special issue of the international
journal Poetics Today, this collection was named Best
Special Issue of 2001 by the Council of Editors of Learned
Journals. The collection also contains an important new
article by David Attwell on the experimental turn in black
South African fiction.
ISBN 1-86888-260-8
52
The Law of Commoners and Kings:
Narratives of a rural Transkei
magistrate
Dial Ndima
This is a narrative of the life experience of an ordinary
person who grew up in the rural areas of the Transkei.
After learning about life according to a purely African
world view, he suffered a ‘culture shock’ when he came
into contact with the contradictions of urban life.
On Becoming a Democracy: Transition and
transformation in South African society
Edited by Chabani Manganyi
This collection of essays analyses and illustrates some of
the most poignant and difficult problems facing South
Africa. It situates South Africa’s developing democratic
civil and political culture within a more broadly conceived
global quest that began in the mid-1980s.
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Voices that Reason: Theoretical parables
Ari Sitas
Voices that reason charts the thoroughfares that speed
the thought processes of many black South Africans
towards specific expectations, grievances and actions. The
book is an important and thought-provoking culmination
of a generation’s worth of disparate but related revisionist
thinking within the social sciences and history of South
Africa.
Also by this author: The Mandela Decade , p74
Predicaments of Culture in South Africa
Ashraf Jamal
Predicaments of Culture in South Africa posits an openended and speculative approach to the question and
agency of culture. Jamal challenges the conflicting and
contiguous drives of fatalism, positivism and relativism,
which are dominant aspects of the South African cultural
imaginary.
Item 7234, 2004, 171pp, soft cover | ISBN 1- 86888-285-3
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Segregation and Singularity: Politics and its context
among white, middle-class English-speakers in
late-Apartheid
Johannesburg
Peter Stewart
The book adds another dimension to the interpretation
of class dynamics in the study of Apartheid South Africa.
The author considers the impact of the middle classes in
shaping the history of Apartheid South Africa.
ISBN 1- 86888-290-X
Hear our Voices: Race, gender and the status of
Black South African women in academy
Edited by Reitumetse Mabokela
and Zine Magubane
Through the recounting of personal narratives, the
contributors aim to expose the racist and sexist practices
that still suffuse the institutional culture of South African
universities, despite public pronouncements about a
commitment to diversity and transformation.
ISBN 1-86888-294-2
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Cape Flats Details: Life and culture in
the townships of Cape Town
Chris Ledochowski
Published in association with South
African History Online
Cape Flats Details is an extraordinary
collection of high-quality photographs
taken by Ledochowski over a period of 25
years. His work has taken him across the
cultural, racial and class boundaries of the
Cape Flats townships. The book embraces
deeper issues and relationships that he
attempted to convey through the medium
of photography.
Item 7907, 2008, 218pp,
hard cover with full colour
photographs
ISBN 978- 1- 86888-479-7
Price: SA R460,00 /
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Democracy X: Marking the present;
re-presenting the past
Edited by Andries Walter Oliphant,
Peter Delius and Lalou Meltzer
This book is the companion to an exhibition
held in the Iziko Castle Galleries in Cape
Town, in 2004, as part of the official
celebrations to mark ten years of democracy
in South Africa. The exhibition was designed
to create awareness of, and appreciation
for, the diversity of cultures in South Africa
by drawing attention to the importance of
all the cultures of this country. The book
presents a written and visual record of the
exhibition, while exploring a range of related
historical, cultural and political matters.
Item 7245, 2004, 329pp,
hard cover with full-colour
photographs
ISBN 1-86888-325-6
Price: SA R460,00 /
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Table of Contents
Reading revolution:Shakespeare on Robben Island
60
Mandela & Mbeki – The Hero and the outsider
62
Bye the beloved country South Africans in the UK 1994–2009
64
Durban’s climate gamble: Trading carbon betting the earth
65
Searching for South Africa
66
Sauti! Moral and Spiritual Challenges Facing 21st Century Africa
67
The Road to Democracy in South Africa Volume 1 (1960–1970)
68
The Road to Democracy in South Africa Volume 2 (1970–1980)
70
The Road to Democracy in South Africa Volume 3: International Solidarity,
Part 1 and Part 2
71
The Road to Democracy in South Africa Volume 4 Parts 1 & 2 [1980–1990]
72
Reunion: An Island in Search of an Identity
74
Africa Conflicts companion volumes 75
The roots of African conflicts: The causes and costs
75
The resolution of African conflicts: The management of conflict resolution
and post-conflict resolution
76
Africa in the New Millennium Series
58
77
Intellectuals and African Development: Pretension and Resistance in
African Politics
77
African Intellectuals: Rethinking politics, language and development
78
Negotiating Modernity: Africa’s ambivalent experience
79
Urban Africa: Changing contours of survival in the city
79
African anthropologies: History, critique and practice
79
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Liberal democracy and its critics in Africa: Political dysfunction and the
struggle for social progress
80
Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in
Contemporary Southern Africa
80
Africa and Development: Challenges in the New Millenium.
The NEPAD Debate
81
Defiant images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa
82
African universities in the twenty-first century
83
African universities in the twenty-first century: Volume I:
Liberalisation and internationalization
83
African universities in the twenty-first century: Volume II:
Knowledge and society
83
Between democracy and terror: The Sierra Leone civil war
84
Africa’s media: Democracy and the politics of belonging
84
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the cold war, and the roots of terror
85
Globalization and Social Policy in Africa
86
Race and the construction of the dispensable other
87
Nothing about us without us: Inside the Disability Rights Movement
of South Africa
88
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Reading revolution:
Shakespeare on Robben Island
Ashwin Desai
Published by Unisa Press, First edition,
first impression
This book centres on a copy of The complete
works of William Shakespeare, which was
smuggled onto the Island and disguised with
religious Indian greeting cards, and in which
many
of the most famous political prisoners
including Nelson Mandela signed next to their
favourite Shakespeare lines.
This is a full colour production boasting 144
pages with hardback & dust jacket containing
colour pictures and historic photographs. With
unique features (32cmx24cm) this is an ideal
coffee table book for gifts & souvenir. It is a
socio-political book with historical elements
designed to be a classic collectors’ item with
unique design features fit for gifting.
This is a book to be enjoyed by academics,
scholars, politicians and the reading public.
Universities and libraries will also find it
valuable to have.
The prison authorities on Robben Island
displayed a remarkable obsession with
censoring the news that prisoners could
receive of the outside world. Yet, as the pages
of this book reveal, political prisoners managed
to escape these constraints through literature,
travelling to the sites of contemporary
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revolutionary struggles and to the frontlines of
the French and Bolshevik revolutions. Tolstoy
jostled with Trotsky, while Shakespeare ‘winged’
his way over the walls of the single and
communal cells. As the prisoners brought their
experiences to bear on the text, the works of
Shakespeare were mined for their anti-colonial
and anti-apartheid inspirations as much as for
the power and beauty of their words. The texts
also left their mark on the consciousness and
memories of liberation fighters, with many
prisoners reciting lines from Shakespeare’s
plays and sonnets some three decades after
their release.
Through the memories and biographical
accounts written by former political inmates,
the book evocatively brings to life the voices
of prisoners who furtively copied books at
night before they were snatched back by the
warders. This book is about those books,
about how words can inspire the human spirit,
light up the intellect and free the reader to
travel the world. But this is not a book simply
about the past. By opening the all too quickly
forgotten pages of history, the book seeks to
ignite once more a reading revolution, to stir
up the imagination, in a South Africa whose
democratic transition seeks to consolidate
power from above while being increasingly
contested by insurgent protest from below.
Item 8669, 2011
144 pp, hard cover with dust
jacket
ISBN: 978-1-86888-683-8
Prices: SA: R350,00 (incl VAT)
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Mandela & Mbeki – The Hero and the
outsider
Lucky Mathebe
Mandela & Mbeki: The Hero and the
Outsider presents a comparative historical
study of the narrative of Mandela and
Mbeki and its grip on the South African
imagination. A persistent theme among
historical narratives of South African
presidential politics was that Mandela is
a ‘hero’, and that his style embodied an
inclusive approach. His former deputy and
successor, on the other side, was regarded a
little harshly as a ‘prince’.
This book is concerned with the historical
contexts in which these two narratives were
centred, and takes the reader on a journey
of what South African history could look
like when Mandela, a character of legend,
is cast in the role of an introverted ruler,
and Mbeki as manifesting the sense of an
outsider. Mbeki had a reputation for being
‘an opinionated foreigner’ in his country’s
present politics of avant-gardism and
universalism.
The author presents a picture of the period
1912–2008 and organises his account
around a number of themes of current
interest: the ‘invention’ of traditions and
modern nations, Black Consciousness,
the ANC, the PAC, the working class, and
the middle class. He writes a stimulating
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account with a great deal of interesting
detail, taking the debate about his two
protagonists beyond the ‘orthodox’
platform to which it had been taken in
the mid-1990s. Lucky Mathebe sets out
to demonstrate, on the one hand, that
Mandela’s legend amounts to a great deal
more than the surge of his charisma, and
that his Republicans’ avant-gardism did
much to make him the leader he became.
On the other hand, he demonstrates that
Mbeki was a pragmatist and a ‘hyphenate’
leader, both by custom and by principle, and
was historically programmed by his exile past
into the primordialist he became.
Item 8682, 2012
354 pp soft cover with photos
ISBN: 978-1-86888-660-9
Prices: SA: R280,00 (Incl. Vat),
Africa: R286.00 (Airmail incl)
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Bye the beloved country?
South Africans in the UK 1994–2009
Robert Crawford
South Africans have long been present
in the United Kingdom. However, since
1994, their numbers in the British Isles,
and in particular London, have grown
exponentially. By 2009 some had even
predicted that over a million South Africans
now called the UK home. While this
number is an exaggeration, it is clear that
this group comprises the largest portion of
the South African diaspora.
Variously labelled chicken runners, exiles
and emigrants, these South Africans have
regularly attracted attention in the South
African media, yet there have been no
serious studies of them and their story.
Item 8472, 2011
182pp soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-613-5
Prices: SA: R180,00 (Incl. VAT)
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This book addresses that gap. It asks who
these South Africans are, why they are in
the UK, and what they have been doing
there. The answers to these questions not
only provide a unique insight into the short
history of South Africa’s unofficial tenth
province, but also what it reveals about the
‘Rainbow Nation’. These insights further
help to answer the question of whether
or not these South Africans will return to
South Africa...
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Durban’s climate gamble:
Trading carbon betting the earth
Edited by
Patrick Bond
Durban, South Africa: a city of immense
beauty but also a city with deep
environmental scars caused by industrial
giants and insensitive government – and
in late 2011, host for the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change summit, the
COP17.
This book takes the reader on a journey
from Durban’s apartheid roots to its jaded
present, passing cultural icons and political
battles, narrating socio-economic and
environmental conflict and the reinvention
of the city’s tradition of resistance. In this
context we can understand why the COP17
represents a vast climate gamble: will carbon
markets solve the crisis? Or will Durban be
remembered as a ‘Conference of Polluters’?
A team of critical sociologists, geographers,
historians, political economists and activists
reflect on Durban’s political ecology, and
consider what will come of the Kyoto
Protocol globally, as the COP17 puts faith
in market solutions for market problems –
recklessly betting on the earth’s future.
Item 8656, 2011
264 pp,
Soft cover, with colour inserts
ISBN: 978-1-86888-685-2
Prices: SA: R275,00 (Incl VAT)
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Searching for South Africa: The New
Calculus of Dignity
Shireen Essof and
Dan Moshenberg
The last fifteen years, 1994–2009,
have seen unprecedented change
in the Republic of South Africa.
The contributors to Searching for
South Africa set out to test the
legitimacy and utility of this general
consensus.
In doing this, the authors actively refuse to
travel the path of transition. Instead, they
write from the articulatory cauldron of the
current social movements in South Africa to
seek something better as well as something
other than a language of transition.
Item 8375, 2011
236 pp, soft cover
ISBN: 978-1-86888-578-7
Prices:: SA R180 (Incl. Vat),
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With intense and speculative critiques of
sites of struggle, the essays in this collection
range in focus from the campaigns of
outsourced workers at the University of
Cape Town, to the ‘informal high school’
Masiphumelele in the Mandela Park section
of Khayelitsha, from the Anti-Eviction
Campaign to the Soweto Electricity Crisis
Committee, from the Anti Privatisation
Forum, to the Congress of South African
Trade Unions and the African National
Congress, from the millions to the
thousands, from the neighbourhood to the
nation.
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Sauti! Moral and Spiritual Challenges
Facing 21st Century Africa
MM Mamabolo
Published by Unisa Press,
First edition, first impression
Sauti! (Swahili for ‘Voice!’) is a new note in the
call for Africa to extricate itself from its colonial
past and create a unique identity in consonance
with its own culture. In these pages, Matoane
Mamabolo makes a cultural and spiritual
journey enquiring into the future of the African
continent, a journey that will resonate with
scholars, politicians and thinking people, both
Africans and non Africans. Well researched
and written, this study is detailed, meticulous,
challenging, informative, and thought
provoking. Its focus is on creating a framework
in which Africans can grapple spiritually and
intellectually with questions relating to their
beliefs and hopes – and in ways that are
intelligible to Africans and relevant to their
social-cultural contexts.
In a thorough review of the more serious
contemporary social, religious and cultural
problems that the continent is facing, the
author analyses the challenges facing Africa
in an interesting new way, and provides
suggestions for successful decolonisation,
as well as reflecting on the status of African
ideas in a globalised world. This study will
prove useful as a reference and handbook for
students and lecturers of African Renaissance
studies, politics, theology, African philosophy
and the social sciences.
Item 8693, 2012
192 +5pp, soft cover
ISBN: 978-1-86888-610-4
Price: SA R245,00
Africa: R255,00
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The Road to Democracy in South Africa
Volume 1 (1960–1970)
South African Democracy
Education Trust (SADET)
This first volume in the SADET series
encapsulates the political developments of
the watershed decade of 1960 to 1970.
The reprint is testimony not only to the
popularity of this volume, but also to its
importance as a resource on the history of
the South African struggle for liberty for all.
Developments such as the Sharpeville
massacre marked a turning point that was
to shape the future of South Africa: prior
to this tragic occurrence, the struggle had
been characterised by passive resistance,
by way of demonstrations and defiance
campaigns.
Item 8237, 2011
First edition 2004,
revised edition 2010,
699 + 17pp, hard cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-563-3
Price: SA R320,00
Africa: R345,00
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With this book series, SADET sets out to
examine and analyse events leading to
the negotiated settlement and democracy
in this country. As explained in the first
edition:
`The series has the advantage of
recording the voices of some of those
who were the makers of history. Those
who made the history must thus have the
opportunity to participate in the process
of recording that history in words, and
[to] interpret it as they see it.’
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This thoroughly researched volume grew
from a collaboration between some of the
most brilliant historians in South Africa
and elsewhere around the globe. Insights
are given and accounts reflect on such
developments as the establishment of the
apartheid policy and resistance to it; popular
uprisings in the townships; the prohibition
of political parties and life in exile; the start
of the armed struggle and ensuing conflicts;
parliamentary and extra-parliamentary liberal
opposition to the system; the political trials
and incarceration of leaders; and pressure
from the international community to bring
about change.
In line with SADET’s vision, this volume
unearths new insights, supported by
previously untapped documentary sources
and oral accounts of the struggle for
democracy.
The volume offers a rich literature on
resistance to apartheid; consolidated into
sixteen chapters and packed with records
chronicling our arduous past. The book
covers most of the organised forces and
formations that resisted the apartheid
system; some of which changed form, while
others were crushed by the unforgiving
evolution of historical developments
(perhaps they could be said to have
completed their full life-cycle?).
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Volume 2 (1970–1980)
The second volume in the series, like the
first, makes no excuses for being a highly
academic history. That is its strength as a
reference work for the future. But it is also
a vibrant, emotive and highly personalised
story about the people involved, many of
them ordinary people whose voices have
until now not been heard. Volume 2 covers
the tumultuous decade from 1970 to
1980 and includes, among other important
highlights, the growing influence of Black
Consciousness ideology on the minds of
the oppressed; the widespread workers’
strikes in Durban in 1973; the horror of
Soweto in 1976; the intensification of the
armed struggle and the strengthening of
underground structures. It is a fascinating
read.
Item 8434, 2006,
970pp, hard cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-406-3
Price: SA R400,00 /
Africa: R414,00(Airmail incl)
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Volume 3: International Solidarity,
Part 1 and Part 2
Greg Houston
The third volume in The Road to
Democracy in South Africa series examines
the role of anti-apartheid movements
around the world. The global anti-apartheid
movement was very successful in creating
awareness of the liberation struggle in South
Africa, and in contributing to the downfall
of the apartheid government. This volume,
in two parts, brings together analyses which
in the main are written by activist scholars
with deep roots in the movements and
organisations they are writing about.
Item 7888, 2008
Part 1: xlv + 744p and
Part 2: xx+1402 p, hard cover
Volume 3
Part 1 ISBN 978-1-86888-502-2
Volume 3
Part 2 ISBN 978-1-86888-503-9
Series ISBN 978-1-59907-033-9
Price: SA R810,00 (Set of 2 volumes) / Africa: R831,00 (Airmail incl)
Europe: Contact Eurospan: www.eurospanbookstore.com/unisa
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Volume 4 Parts 1 & 2 [1980–1990]
The Road to Democracy book series by the
South African Democracy Education Trust
(SADET) ‘… represents a serious-minded
and valuable effort to record vital aspects of
the history of resistance to apartheid’ - Saul
Dubow, University of Sussex.
Two enduring challenges in South African
historiography are addressed by this
group of committed scholars from the
South African Democracy Education
Trust (SADET).The Road to Democracy
in South Africa: Volume 4 [1980–1990]
firstly addresses the muted voices of largely
unpublished black scholars, and secondly,
ensures that the voices of the majority of
our population are at the centre of the
historic narrative.
‘… The once-banished African voice is at
the centre of both the narrative and the
historical analysis – a conscious effort that
has positively enriched the production of
historical knowledge in South Africa’, says
SADET contributing author and executive
director Dr Sifiso Ndlovu.
Comprising of 32 chapters, Volume 4 in the
series focuses on the 1980s and ‘further
fortifies the intellectual traditions set by the
earlier volumes’. Included in the volume
are chapters by Bernard Magubane on
the apartheid state; Sifiso Ndlovu on the
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ANC and negotiations; Bhekizizwe Peterson
on the arts; Zine Magubane on women’s
struggles; Gregory Houston on the ANC’s
underground and armed struggle; Thami ka
Plaatjie on the PAC; Mbulelo Mzamane and
Brown Maaba on the BCM and AZAPO;
Eddy Maloka on the SACP; Christopher
Saunders on the above-the-ground struggles
conducted by white activists; and Jabulani
Sithole on the trade union movement.
‘… its epic scale and the quality of research
embodied in its chapters will ensure The
Road to Democracy’s status as the staple
authority on its subject for years to come,
and deservedly so,’ says Tom Lodge.
Item 8258, 2012
Part 1: 911 + 28pp and
Part 2: 1693 + 12pp, hard cover
Volume 4
Part 1 ISBN 978-86888-599-2
Volume 4
Part 2 ISBN
Series ISBN 978-1-86888-501-5
Price: SA R710,00 (Set of 2 volumes) / Africa: R743,00 (Airmail incl)
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Reunion: An Island in Search of an Identity
Laurent Médéa
Unisa Press and CEAN
‘Laurent Médéa breaks free from
the convenient ignorance of other
metropolitan realities when we speak
about France. Reunion Island is a
laboratory where cultural diversity
can be examined, and his in-depth
and thorough research sheds light on
the French debate about difference,
memory, identity and has its place in the
extended amount of analysis and studies
that the research field has gathered on
this matter’
- Michel Wieviorka, Professor de
Sociology, EHESS, Paris, Director of
CADIS, President International
Sociology Association
Item 8225, 2010,
206pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-496-4
Price: SA R200,00 /
Africa: R212,00(Airmail incl
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The current 750 000 inhabitants of the
island Reunion make up a plural and
complex society; a mosaic, artificially
composed, created ex nihilo by French
colonial rulers under the impulse of
European market capitalism. The absence
of any autochthonous past, of any deeprooted autochthonous cultural identity prior
to plantation slavery and colonisation, to this
day constitutes a fundamental dimension
of the quest for identity within Reunionese
society.
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Africa Conflicts companion volumes
‘Nhema and Zeleza have assembled in these two extraordinary companion
volumes, one of the most comprehensive treatments of conflicts in Africa.
The two volumes, with admirable competence, address the multiple causes
of conflicts from a historical and contemporary perspective, and creatively
attempt to offer solutions to these conflicts in ways that go beyond the most
contemporary analyses. In the end, both the editors and contributors point to
democratic governance as the best solution to African conflicts. All Africa’s
well wishers, scholars of conflict and African leaders in particular, need to
heed the lessons presented in these two volumes to help speed up the resolution to most of the conflicts on the Continent.’
– Julius E. Nyang’oro, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The roots of African conflicts: The
causes and costs
Zimbabwe • Lesotho • Kenya •Sudan •
Uganda • The horn of Africa
Edited by Alfred Nhema and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Unisa Press and James Currey Publishers, in association with OSSREA
This volume, and the collection as a whole,
provides critical glimpses into the nature
and dynamics of violent conflicts in Africa,
with much of the focus on eastern and
southern Africa. The collection concentrates
on several themes, including conflict
prevention, management and resolution,
economic policies and poverty reduction,
elections, political parties and sustainable
development, democratic consolidation and
ethnic conflict.
Item 7857, 2007 | xii +244pp,
soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-492-6 | Price:
SA: R180,00 / Africa: R195,00
(Airmail incl) | Europe, USA &
elsewhere: Contact James Currey
Publishers. Tel +44 (0)18 65/24
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The resolution of African conflicts: The management of conflict resolution
and post-conflict resolution
South Arica • Namibia • Mozambique • Somalia• Sudan • Lesotho
• Kenya • Uganda •Mauritius
Edited by Alfred Nhema and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Unisa Press and James Currey Publishers, in association with OSSREA
This volume reviews several strategies
meant to ensure conflict resolution and
post-conflict recovery in Africa. The ranges
of interventions which are examined in
the various chapters include negotiation
frameworks within the extant economic,
social, political and cultural configurations;
the role of international actors and regional
organisations like the Africa Union, the
International Criminal Court and subregional organisations; the utilisation of
continental early warning systems; and
finally a discussion on the role of democratic
constitutional governance as a panacea for
conflict resolution in Africa.
Item 7856, 2007
xv +207pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-493-3 | Price:
SA: R180,00 / Africa: R195,00
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Currey Publishers. Tel +44 (0)18
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The main concern for Africa should be
to create conditions conducive to peace
and opportunities for development, and a
decent life for the majority of its people.
The book identifies a range of mechanisms
to resolve conflict, in an effort to equip
peacemaking forces conceptually and
practically.
The books in this series are published in association with the Council for the
Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and ZED Books,
to encourage African scholarship relevant to the multiple intellectual, policy and
practical problems and opportunities confronting the African continent in the 21st
century.
Intellectuals and African Development:
Pretension and Resistance in African
Politics
Björn Beckman and Gbemisola Adeoti
This book looks at the very different
responses to the African predicament from
prominent writers like Soyinka, Ngugi and
Achebe, to the military men in power and
the students who defy repression.
This volume suggests that intervention
by international agencies who claim to
promote ‘democracy’ and ‘empower
the youth’ may reinforce authoritarian
attitudes and structures. The essays in the
book give voice to the outrage, ridicule
and revolutionary ardour, as well as to the
reformist caution, of those directly affected.
Item 7689, 2006
178pp, soft cover
ISBN 2-86978-196-2
Price: SA R180,00
Africa: R185,00
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African Intellectuals: Rethinking
politics, language and development
Edited by Thandika Mkandawire
Item 7376, 2005
256pp, soft cover
ISBN 1-84277-621-5
Price: SA R180,00
Africa: R185
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Compared with Asia or Latin America, Africa has
experienced much higher rates of emigration of
its intelligentsia to North America and Europe, and
frequent displacement within the continent. This
overview of its history, fate and future roles explores
the relationship of African intellectuals to nationalism
and the Pan African project; the indigenous language
question; women intellectuals; and the role of the
hugely growing African academic Diaspora. It assesses
the interface between intellectuals and society, state
and politics in the context of the restoration of
multi-party politics, changing economic policies, and
renewed Pan-African awareness.
Negotiating Modernity:
Africa’s ambivalent experience
Edited by Elisio Salvado Macamo
Item 7494, 2005
238pp, soft cover
ISBN 1-84277-617-7
Price: SA R190,00
Africa: R194,00
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This book takes a fresh look at Africa’s experience
of modernity which draws out its wider relevance
for social theory. The authors argue that the African
experience of modernity is unique and relevant
for wider social theory, offering valuable analytical
insights. The cases presented cover labour, land rights,
religious conversion, internal migration, emigration
and the African Diaspora.
Urban Africa: Changing contours of
survival in the city
Edited by Abdoumaliq Simone and Abdelghani
Abouhani
This book explores how people negotiate the spatial
practices, politico-economic processes and social
relations that entangle place, identity and power
in urban sites, with case studies from Dakar, Addis
Ababa, Cape Town, Kisangani, Jos, Zaria, Cairo and
Marrakesh.
Item 7377, 2005
320pp, soft cover
ISBN 1-84277-593-6
Price: SA R180,00
Africa: R185,00
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African anthropologies:
History, critique and practice
Mwenda Ntarangwi
Edited by David Mills and Mustafa Babiker
‘This is a timely and extremely valuable contribution to the ongoing debate about the crisis
of identity in anthropology, offering fresh and
unique insights into the fundamental challenges
facing African anthropology. The book focuses
on the theoretical, epistemological and practical
problems resulting from Africa’s encounter with
Eurocolonialism and addresses the difficulties,
limitations, achievements and potential of African
anthropology – the “mother” of Africa Studies –
from the
perspective of “insiders”.’
– Maxwell Owuso, University of Michigan
Item 7566, 2006
274pp, soft cover
ISBN 2-86978-168-7
Price: SA R139,00
Africa: 141.00
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Liberal democracy and its critics in Africa:
Political dysfunction and the struggle for social
progress
Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Item 7496, 2005
213pp, soft cover
ISBN 2- 86978- 143- 1
Price: SA R190,00
Africa: R194,00
codesria.org
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This book explores critical questions in the context
of elections in countries as diverse as Ghana, Nigeria,
Kenya, the Congo, Cameroon and the Central African
Republic. The underlying issue is whether democratic
processes, as currently practised in Africa, are really
making any significant difference to African economic,
social and cultural progress.
Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and
Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa
Francis B Nyamnjoh
Item 7565, 2006,
273pp, soft cover |
ISBN 1-84277-677-0
Price: SA R180,00
Africa: R185,00
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‘A remarkable study... Among the many significant
theoretical and empirical contributions that Nyamnjoh makes in this study, perhaps most incisive is
the intensity with which Africa is incorporated into
the consumption practices of global capitalism in
that no object, territory or experience is beyond a
locus of often fierce struggle over their disposition
and use.’
– Professor Abdoumaliq Simone
Africa and Development: Challenges in the
New Millenium. The NEPAD Debate
Jo Adésiná Yao Graham and A Olukoshi
This book is the first major attempt by African
scholars and policy makers to evaluate the meaning
of NEPAD in concrete terms. The authors raise key
questions about NEPAD’s ability to integrate Africa
with the global economy, to overcome the challenge
of poverty, and to bring about regional development.
The book also addresses what NEPAD means for
agriculture, industrialisation, trade and the ‘digital
divide’.
Item 7690, 2006
304pp, soft cover
ISBN 1-84277-595-2
Price: SA R159,00
Africa: R169,47
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Political Africa
Defiant images: Photography and
Apartheid South Africa
Darren Newbury
‘This book is much more than just a
discourse on photography in the land of
apartheid. And it goes well beyond
sophisticated debate on the artistic
merits of images. While keeping the lens
trained on the evolution of photography
it plunges the reader into a sharp and
evocative
sociocultural history of a country in deep
conflict.’
– Albie Sachs
Item 8228, 2009
365pp with a collection of rare
photographs,
soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-523-7
SA price: R260,00 /
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Photography is often believed to ‘witness’
history or ‘reflect’ society, but such
perspectives fail to account for the complex
ways in which photographs are made and
seen, and the variety of motivations and
social and political factors that shape the
vision of the world that photographs provide.
This book develops a critical historical
method for engaging with photographs of
South Africa during the Apartheid period.
The author looks closely at the photographs
in their original contexts and their
relationship to the politics of the time, listens
to the voices of the photographers to try
and understand how they viewed the work
they were doing, and examines the place of
photography in a post-Apartheid era.
Political Africa
African universities in the twenty-first
century
These two volumes articulate new values and missions for African universities,
and define effective strategies to meet the challenges. Written by some of Africa’s
leading educators, Volume I examines the implications of the neo-liberal reforms
and the new information technologies on African higher education, while Volume
II interrogates the changing social dynamics of knowledge production, university
organisation, and public service and engagement.
century: Volume I: Liberalisation
and internationalization
Edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Adebayo
Olukoshi
Item 7139 (Volume I), 2004, 330pp, soft cover
ISBN 2-86978-124-5
Europe: GB£12.20 / €16.80 | USA: $19.20
century: Volume II: Knowledge and
society
Edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Adebayo
Olukoshi
Item 7198 (Volume II), 2004, 665pp, soft cover
ISBN 2-86978-125-3
Europe: GB£13.00 / €17.90 | USA: $20.40
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Political Africa
Between democracy and terror: The Sierra
Leone civil war
Edited by Ibrahim Abdullah
This book is the first serious study to engage with
the Sierra Leone civil war. It explores the genesis of
the crisis; the contradictory roles of different internal
actors; civil society and the fourth estate; the regional
intervention force; the demise of the second republic;
and the numerous peace initiatives to end the war.
ISBN 2-86978-123-7
Europe: GB£11.40 / €15.70 | USA: $17.90
Africa’s media: Democracy and the
politics of belonging
Francis B Nyamnjoh
This study explores the role of the mass media in
promoting democracy and empowering civil society
in Africa during the continent’s ‘second liberation
struggle’ in the 1990s. The author explores the
question of media ethics and professionalism in
Africa, and the important roles that ‘radio trottoir’
(rumour) and political satire have played as sources of
information and opinion formation.
ISBN 1- 84277- 583- 9
Europe: GB£15.40 / €21.20 | USA: $24.20
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Political Africa
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the
cold war, and the roots of terror
Mahmood Mamdani
In a brilliant study of the rise of
contemporary political Islam, distinguished
political scientist Mahmood Mamdani brings
his expertise to bear on a question many
Americans have been asking since 9/11:
how did this happen?
Here is a book that will profoundly change
our understanding of both Islam and
America’s position in the world today.
Item 7183, 2004
304pp, soft cover
ISBN 2-86978- 134-2
Price: SA R150,00 / Africa:
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Political Africa
Edited by Tade Akin Aina, Chachage
Seithy L Chachage and Elizabeth AnnanYao
examines the different areas of significant
contact between globalisation and the
lives of ordinary people in Africa. Through
contributions that rely mainly on empirical
and historical studies, the 17 authors from
all parts of Africa and across a variety of
social science disciplines attempt to provide
answers as to how Africans understand,
confront and relate to the forces of
globalisation.
Item 7199, 2004
339pp, soft cover
ISBN 2-86978-130-X
Price: SA R180,00 /
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Political Africa
Race and the construction of the
dispensable other
Bernard M Magubane
This major contribution by Ben Magubane
– who has made a lifelong study of the
political economy of race – tracks the
function and history of racism. It details
the earliest written – and indeed very
seldom quoted – responses to the ‘other’
of white supremacist philosophers. These
anthropologists and other ‘scientists’ and
thinkers of their day gave racism legitimacy,
by insisting on the innate biological and
cultural characteristics and differences
between black and white people. Such
arguments provided much of the political
consciousness of the ‘civilising mission’
of Empire, and later fed the projects of
capitalism and imperialism.
Ben Magubane, a respected African scholar,
brings together a formidable array of
primary sources to present his exposition
of the foundations and proliferation of
racism. He examines the way in which black
people came to be enslaved, denigrated,
likened to wild animals, and regarded as
an inferior, dispensable ‘other’. He also
questions why philosophers, political
theorists and intellectuals were seduced by
settler colonialism, to the extent that they
closed their eyes to its ravaging effects on
indigenous people.
Item 7737, 2007
278pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-326-4
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Political Africa
Nothing about us without us: Inside the
Disability Rights Movement of South Africa
William Rowland
The book’s first two chapters describe the
onward rush of the disability struggle as
part of the broader political movement in
South Africa. This is followed by a chapter on
economic empowerment, as an extension of
struggle into new areas. Rowland provides
an account of the transformation within the
South African National Council for the Blind
(SANCB), including a description of three
unique initiatives in the country, as models of
service delivery and self-help.
Only a person who is at the same time a
leader, a person, with a disability and a truly
committed person could have produced
a work of this import. The book offers
something of everything: it is an insider’s
tale, a human tale, a tale of triumph over
adversity, a tale told by an experienced
expert and a tale of the triumph of the
human spirit. Dr Rowland writes with deep
understanding, highlighting often innovative
and heroic efforts to be both independent
and loved.
Item 7249, 2003
183pp, soft cover
ISBN 1- 86888- 259-6
Price: SA R160,00 /
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Table of Contents
Religious Ideas and Institutions: Transitions to Democracy in Africa
90
Reasearching Power & Identity in African State Formations
91
Close to the Sources: Essays on Contemporary African Culture,
Politics and Academy
92
Imagining, Writing, (Re)Reading the Black Body
93
Capitalism and Slavery
94
From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean
95
Amílcar Cabral: Unity and Struggle: Speeches and writings
96
Reason, Memory and Politics
97
Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa: Crisis or Renaissance?
98
Readings in modernity in Africa 99
The Strangers of New Bell: Immigration, Public Space and Community in
Colonial Douala, Cameroon, 1914–1960
100
Memory and African Cultural Production Series 101
African Oral Story-telling tradition and the Zimbabwean novel in English
101
Somewhere in this Country 102
Africa 2025: What possible future for sub-Saharan Africa? 102
89
Religious Ideas and Institutions: Transitions
to Democracy in Africa
In this latest phase of political transitions
in Africa, analysts rarely consider the
relationship between religion and politics.
This book seeks to address this need.
It argues among other things that for
democracy to be consolidated, political
leaders must make the right institutional
choices, choices that structure the incentives
of their constituents as well as their own
away from antagonistic forms of politics or
religious extremism.
Item 8692,
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What impact do African contemporary
religious organizations and elites have
on their societies in terms of intergroup
reciprocity and political bargaining? The
primary objective of this volume is to analyze
how such organizations respond to the
political signs and gestures of other groups
in a like-minded manner and the nature and
effects of their negotiations with the state
and other interests over contested matters.
The authors of this selection of papers
hypothesize that Africa’s religious
organizations can prove critical in the way
their elites make demands on the state and
in the way they help to shape the structure
of intergroup relations in constructive or
destructive directions. They consider the
roles of both secular and religious elites and
institutions in creating a political climate that
enables elites to consolidate democracy.
Researching Power and Identity in African
State Formation: Comparative Perspectives
Doornbos, MR and Van Binsbergen,
WMJ
About the book:
The book illuminates key aspects of how,
historically, the dynamics of power and identity
interact in the African context, generating
the kind of political structures and collective
actions that have often appeared characteristic
for the continent. It examines some salient
dimensions of the broader frameworks of
hegemony and power imposed upon African
societies in the context of larger geopolitical
and historical processes. Power and identity
are two key concepts which can be applied in
describing African realities. The interaction and
connections between the two concepts are,
moreover, of key importance in the African
context, as their studies demonstrate.
About the authors:
Martin Doornbos (PhD, University of California,
Berkeley) is Emeritus Professor of Political
Science at the Institute of Social Studies, The
Hague, The Netherlands. His research interests
have broadly focused on the dynamics of statesociety relations in Africa and India,
Wim van Binsbergen is an anthropologist at
the Philosophical Faculty, Erasmus University
Rotterdam (the Netherlands). He is presently
working on the theory and method of research
on cultural globalisation, ethnicity and religion.
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Close to the Sources: Essays on
Contemporary African Culture, Politics and
Academy
Abebe Zegeye and
Maurice Taonezvi Vambe
Unisa Press and Routledge
Item 8069, 2009
172pp, hard cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-549-7
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This is one of the first books in Africa to
explore the statusz and critical relationships
between politics, culture, literary creativity,
criticism, education and publishing in the
context of promoting Africa’s indigenous
knowledge systems. The book’s main
themes are built around literary culture,
the role of meta-criticism and education in
post-independence Africa. While building
on the theoretical blocks of Cabral’s works,
the book assimilates insights from some
important sources of scholarship in Africa
and creates space for itself to and revise
and extend Amilcar Cabral’s concept of
the Return To The Source and introduce
in critical ways, notions of inter-, cross-,
and trans-disciplinary approaches to the
understanding of African culture, politics
and the academy.
The book combines and links the analysis
of politics, creative works of art, and literary
criticism, to educational as well as publishing
trends in Africa.
Imagining, Writing,
(Re)Reading the Black Body
Edited by Sandra Jackson,
Fassil Demissie and Michele Goodwin
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the
black body remains an object of discursive
analysis – as material and symbol – inscribed
by multiple levels of meaning and shaped
by the past, the present and ideas about
imagined futures. Through the lens of
different disciplines, this book considers
how the black body is read polysemically
in terms of social and political contexts and
issues of power. The contributors to this
text critically examine themes addressing
the intersections of race, gender, body
politics, representation in popular culture and
media, aesthetics, policing and disciplining,
and resistance. The authors explore and
interrogate the black body – how it has been
historically produced and constructed as an
object of desire, menace, literary trope and
political embodiment of the ‘Other’, drawing
examples from Europe, Africa, the United
States as well as other places in the Black
Diaspora.
Through its examination of these and related
issues regarding the black body, this book
contributes to a dialogue across various
disciplines about the black body, its meanings
and negotiations as read, interpreted, and
imagined in different frames of perception.
Item 8040, 2009,
xxii+188pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-478-0
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Capitalism and Slavery
Eric Williams
With an introduction by Collin A Palmer
and preface by Thabo Mbeki
University of North Carolina Press;
reprinted by Unisa Press
First published in 1944 and years ahead of
its time, this book became the foundation
for many future studies of imperialism and
economic development. Binding an economic
view of history with strong moral argument,
Williams’ study of the role of slavery in
financing the Industrial Revolution refuted
traditional ideas of economic and moral
progress, and firmly established the centrality
of the African slave trade in European
economic development. He also showed that
mature industrial capitalism, in turn, helped
destroy the slave system. Establishing the
exploitation of commercial capitalism and its
link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a
historicist vision that set the tone for future
studies.
Item 7917, 2010
306pp, soft cover
Reprinted under license
ISBN 978-1-86888-606-7
SA Price: R260,00 /
Europe: GB£20.00 / €26.00
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Castro:
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Collin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of
Williams’ groundbreaking work and analyses
the heated scholarly debate it generated
when it first appeared.
The late Eric Williams was Prime Minister
of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 until his
death in 1981.
From Columbus to Castro:
The History of the Caribbean
Eric Williams
University of North Carolina Press;
reprinted by Unisa Press
`Eric Williams is forced to write about so
much greed and cruelty that it is
remarkable that he keeps his temper
and his perspective. He succeeds, and his
practical discussion of the current state
of the Caribbean is among the best of
its kind …’ The New Yorker
This narrative history of the entire West
Indian area since the fifteenth century,
collates all existing knowledge of the
Caribbean in relation to the rest of the
world and examines the political, social
and economic forces that have shaped this
region since 1492.
Dominated by the history of sugar, which is
inseparable from the history of slavery, From
Columbus to Castro is a seminal work
about a profoundly important but often
neglected and misinterpreted area of the
world.
Dr Eric Williams was best known in two
roles: as a consummate historian, and as
first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
and head of government for twenty-five
years, from 1956 until his death in 1981.
Item 7916, 2010
582pp, soft cover
Reprinted under licence
ISBN 978-1-86886-607-4
SA Price: R260,00 /
Europe: GB£24.00 / €32.00
USA: $41.00
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Amílcar Cabral: Unity and Struggle –
Speeches and Writings
Amílcar Cabral
With a new introduction by Maurice
Taonezvi Vambe and Abebe Zegeye
Texts selected by the PAIGC (Partido
Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo
Verde / African Party for the Independence
of Guinea and Cape Verde)
Translated by Michael Wolfers, and foreword
by Carlos Lopes
Item 7899, 2004
358pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-450-6
Price: SA R300,00 /
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Amílcar Cabral, born in 1921 in GuineaBissau, had his early education in Guinea
and persued his university studies in
Portugal. Cabral found himself active in the
nationalist struggle, a political context that
enabled him to reflect on several aspects
of the armed struggle. He developed his
understanding and theories of the national
liberation struggle in the political context
of militant nationalism; he fought as he
wrote incisively about that struggle, and
passionately struggled as he wrote. This
dialectical experience enriched his theoretical
understanding of the aims, goals, strategies
and ideologies that informed the nature of
political involvement in the movement for
national liberation.
Reason, Memory and Politics
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
What does it mean, early in the twenty-first
century, to be an African philosopher? In
effect, how does African philosophy remain
relevant in the age of globalisation? These
are two of the momentous questions
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze addresses in
Reason, Memory and Politics.
Eze, in this work, engages his African
colleagues’ philosophies in a way that
contributes to a re-invention of the global
society, or at least in promoting the idea
of communities of researchers dedicated
to investigating emerging new questions
about the futures of the discipline and its
social and historical roles in the broader
intellectual and ethical formation of modern,
postmodern, non-sexist, non-racist and
post-colonial subjectivities.
‘This book forms part of an emerging
zone of scholarship which seeks to theorize Africa and its intellectual lineages
in a broader universal perspective. It is
highly pertinent and cutting edge’
− Isabel Hofmeyr, Professor of African
Languages and literature, University
of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Item 7986, 2008
xviii + 147pp, soft cover
ISBN 978- 1- 86888- 403- 2
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Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa:
Crisis or Renaissance?
Edited by Kenji Yoshida
and John Mack
Unisa Press
and James Currey Publishers
The outflow of archaeological or artistic
work from Africa, together with the ways of
exhibiting African treasures, are emerging
as serious issues both in political and ethical
terms. They are typified by a series of hot
disputes concerning the legality of the
exhibition of Nok terracotta pieces from
Nigeria, in the Louvre. Meanwhile, in Africa,
there has been an upsurge of active efforts
by many ethnic groups to create or recreate their own cultures, by reviewing their
cultural legacy.
Item 8051, 2009,
x + 214pp, includes 94
photographs and illustrations,
soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-539-8
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The book discusses the questions: How
should Africa’s cultural heritage be
preserved? How can scholars and museum
professionals outside Africa support African
colleagues in handing down their cultural
legacy to future generations?
Readings in modernity in Africa
Edited by Peter Geschiere,
Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels
In association with The International
African Institute, Indiana University Press,
Unisa Press & James Currey Publishers
This book offers students of Africa an
overview of the variety of scholarly works
stimulated by the question of modernity, and
gives tools for dealing with its intellectual
paradoxes. It consists of two different parts;
one providing both analytical and historical
examples of the genealogies of modernity
in Africa; the other a set of ethnographic
sketches of current manifestations of
modernity in Africa.
Two kinds of tools are provided with which
to research and manage the admittedly
dazzling variety of manifestations of
modernity in Africa:
- A selective but substantive sketch of the
genealogies of modernity in Africa; and
- An introductory research guide which
tracks key dimensions, trajectories and locations of modernity in Africa and beyond.
Item 7919, 2008
ix + 226pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-528-2
Price: SA: R260,00 /
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Publishers.
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99
The Strangers of New Bell: Immigration,
Public Space and Community in Colonial
Douala, Cameroon, 1914–1960
Lynn Schler
Unisa Press and African Books Collective
Item 8029, 2009
viii+159pp, soft cover
ISBN 978-1-86888-489-6
Price: SA R160,00 /
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Collective.
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This book studies a community of African
immigrants – or ‘strangers’ – designated to
quarters in New Bell, Douala, in Cameroon,
during the colonial era. New Bell was
created in 1914 as part of an extensive
urbanisation and relocation plan intended
to reserve the Douala city centre for
Europeans. New Bell housed thousands
of migrants converging on Douala from
Cameroon and the entire west coast of
Africa. Though never completely evading
colonial economic and political agendas, this
vastly diverse and sometimes strife-ridden
community forged alliances, solidarities,
and common experiences in response to its
immediate needs and long-terms goals.
Schler focuses on the ability of Africans to
bridge differences in culture and experience,
and live as neighbours in cultural and
political spaces, transcending post-colonial
political boundaries.
Memory and African Cultural
Production Series
Series editors: Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Abebe Zegeye
This series actively seeks to establish a new intellectual discourse that, by addressing
various forms of African memory (captured in both written and unwritten cultural
productions), moves beyond the limits of the historical representations of Africans
in dominant narratives. The new paradigm promoted by the series will need to
reflect the dynamic nature of African memory, allowing for multiple interpretive
viewpoints, and will revise myths of linear histories and of a single knowledge
economy based on the written word. This book series hopes to show that there
are no whole, authentic, autonomous African memories that lie outside cultural
power and domination, and considers the implication of infiltration and cultural
implantation of African memory in the processes of cultural production.
African Oral Story-telling
tradition and the Zimbabwean
novel in English
Maurice Taonezvi Vambe
Item 7333, 2004, 134pp, soft cover
ISBN 1- 86888-304-3
Price: SA R120,00 /
The book traces the ways in which the
African oral story-telling tradition survived in
several forms within the narrative interstices
of the Zimbabwean black novel in English.
The author critically analyses the works of
eight well-known Zimbabwean writers and
reveals ways in which they use Zimbabwe’s
oral story-telling traditions to inform their
creative works. These writers’ work reveals
that during colonisation, the liberation
struggle and in post-independence
Zimbabwe, African orature communicated
and continues to communicate views on
resistance to authoritarian ideas.
101
Memory and African Cultural Production Series
Somewhere in this Country
Memory Chirere
This book is the first single collection of
Memory Chirere’s short stories. Here,
unique voices engage with a wide range of
issues at the heart of Zimbabwean society
in particular, and that of southern Africa
in general, searching for, and negotiating
towards, the ‘confluence’ of short story,
fable and poem. All the characters here
want something intensely and whether they
win or lose, they tend to merge and walk
back into the ever-intriguing Zimbabwean
socioscape.
Memory Chirere teaches Creative Writing
and African Literature at the University of
Zimbabwe’s Department of English. He is a
firm believer in ‘the short story’.
Item 7532, 2006
93pp, soft cover
ISBN 1- 86888- 402- 3
Price: SA R80,00 /
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Memory and African Cultural Production Series
Africa 2025: What possible
futures for sub-Saharan Africa?
Edited by Alioune Sall
Published in association with the United
Nations Development Programme’s
African Futures Project
More than a thousand Africans, in 46
countries – women and men, anglophone
and francophone, and from very different
backgrounds – were involved in this
exploration. They first determined the status
quo in Africa at the dawn of the twenty-first
century, and then constructed four scenarios
for the next 25 years.
These scenarios were given metaphorical
names: the lions are trapped; the lions are
hungry; the lions come out of their den; and
the lions mark their territory. In each case,
there is a consideration of the conditions
that must be in place for these scenarios to
become reality.
The projected possible futures will guide
Africans and will also be helpful to people
from other continents who would like to
help Africa to progress in the direction it
chooses.
Item 7328, 2003
161pp, soft cover
ISBN 1-86888-276-4
Price: SA R150,00 /
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SAVUSA Series
Table of Contents
SAVUSA Series
106
Hyphenated Selves 107
Hannah Arendt’s response to the crisis of her times
109
The Ndebele Nation: Reflections on Hegemony, Memory
and Histography
110
Health Communication in Southern Africa: Engaging with social
and cultural diversity
111
The last Frontier War:Braklaagte, Apartheid and the Battles for land
112
105
SAVUSA Series
Series Editor: Harry Wels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Editorial Board: Dr Ineke van Kessel, African Studies Centre, Leiden, The
Netherlands, Prof Kees van der Waal, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
The SAVUSA (South Africa Vrije Unversiteit Strategic Alliances) Series of books
focuses on the broad concept of culture in the spirit of progressive emancipation
and academic capacity building, while keeping a close eye on social relevance for
stimulating processes of sustainable development in South Africa.
This Series aims to publish scientific, yet broadly accessible texts on historic and
contemporary issues in South and southern Africa.
The SAVUSA Series is co-published by Rozenberg Publishers (the Netherlands) and
Unisa Press (South Africa).
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Hyphenated Selves – Immigrant Identities
within Education Contexts
Saloshna Vandeyar
Professor Saloshna Vandeyar brought
together thirteen co-authors to present us
with the most stimulating and original case
studies of identity formation and negotiation
in the contexts of migration and education.
Processes in South African, Dutch, American
Mexican, Swedish, Brazilian and German
schools are scrutinized while immigrant
students from very diverse origins such as
the Philippines, Turkey, Central and East
Africa and Singapore are studied in the way
they perceive themselves in the schools
and countries they now find themselves
in. This excellent compilation will appeal
to researchers in the fields of education,
anthropology, sociology as well as ethnic and
cultural studies. Philip Hermans, Professor of
Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven
This book extends discussions from
anthropology, hermeneutics and philosophy
into the very real and immediate world of
public education. More than that, it speaks
to one of the most challenging public policy
issues of our times: how to come to terms
with ethnic, religious and cultural differences
without authoritarian demands for
conformity and cohesion. For South Africa
the book offers many lessons and points
of debates. If nothing else, it insists that we
confront the challenges of difference: these
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are not merely reverberations of apartheid –
although they are coloured by it – that can
be ignored. They are instead unavoidable
by-products of global processes of human
movement and cultural transformation.
As we recognise these, the authors ask
us to think carefully, not only about the
institutional and pedagogical tools we
employ, but about the fundamental
objectives that inform our efforts.
Professor Loren B. Landau, Director,
Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Studies,
University of the Witwatersrand, South
Africa
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Hannah Arendt’s response
to the crisis of her times
Winner: Hiddingh Currie Award
Anthony Court
Hannah Arendt’s contributions to twentiethcentury political thought resist easy
categorisation, even as they continue to
yield up their prescient insights and inspire
a new generation of admirers. There are
few thinkers in Western history who share
Arendt’s unwavering sense for the political.
She is perhaps the quintessential political
thinker of the modern age. Yet it was not
a romantic attachment to antiquity and
the polis-life that informed her judgements
about what it means to be political. Rather,
it was her response to the twentieth-century
phenomenon of ‘total domination’ that
shaped her thought and in various ways
confronted her in life. Arendt steadfastly
resisted the manifold pathologies of her
time, composing an extended and often
harrowing meditation on their horrors.
Nevertheless, in her defiance and her
unrelenting composure, Arendt reminded
us that beginnings are without end, and that
each new beginning ‘is guaranteed by each
new birth; it is indeed every man’.
Anthony Court is senior researcher in the
Primedia Holocaust and Genocide Unit, at
the University of South Africa.
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The Ndebele Nation: Reflections on
Hegemony, Memory and Histography
Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Scholarship on the southern African
kingdom of the Ndebele of Zimbabwe,
which was promising in the 1960s and
1970s, was overtaken and overshadowed
by research into Shona history in the 1980s.
Since then no major study has appeared on
Ndebele precolonial history, and this book
is the first of its kind to delve deeper into
pertinent issues of state formation, nationbuilding, style of governance, hegemony,
memory and the idea of a Ndebele ‘nation’
rather than a ‘tribe.’ A richly nuanced
historical portrait of the pre-colonial
Ndebele political and social life is provided.
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The book is at once a major historical
reconstruction of an African pre-colonial
society, engaging with key hegemonic
and ideological issues, while at the same
time contextualising all this in a broad
historiography and critical social theory, in
the period from the nineteenth century
to the mid-twentieth century. This book
makes a bold challenge to the mythology of
Ndebele ‘exceptionalism’ that was used by
colonialists to justify their colonial mission.
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Health Communication in Southern Africa:
Engaging with social and cultural diversity
Edited by Luuk Lagerwerf, Henk
Boer and Herman Wasserman
This book presents studies on health
communication, in particular HIV/AIDS
communication, in southern Africa, from
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analysis of social networks, studies of
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interpersonal communication, language and
document design. These studies, all based
on research in southern Africa, show the
complexity of social and cultural factors
related to health communication.
Both established and promising researchers
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This overview of scientific approaches is
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The last Frontier War:
Braklaagte, Apartheid and
the Battles for land
Kobus du Pisanie
This book tells the story of how a black
community in rural South Africa, the
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Moiloa, managed to
hold onto the farm which they purchased in
1908 and, to resist attempts by successive
white-controlled governments to forcefully
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Braklaagte, the farm in the Northwestern
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When the Apartheid regime failed to effect
the forced removal of the community under
the resolute leadership of their traditional
leader, John Lekoloane Sebogoi, the people
were first expropriated and later forcefully
incorporated into the Bophuthatswana
homeland, thus losing their South African
citizenship. The Braklaagte community
lived through serious violence before being
reincorporated into a reunified South Africa
in 1994.
The purpose of the book is not to tell the
Braklaagte story for its own sake, but to
interpret the narrative in the context of
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