Africans need an African voice to tell our African stories and deliver them to the world the way we intended - with our essence, traditions, experiences and thoughts intact. David Monyae is such a voice. A committed anticolonialist and internationalist, Monyae offers insight into the complex and challenging terrain of African international relations. He is acutely aware of the history of the great powers' exploitation of Africa. He is steeped in how states and inter-state organisations and their leaders have struggled for their self-interest and, occasionally, that of the public throughout the continent. Monyae's expertise lies in understanding the ways that realpolitik shapes our world. He recognises the common humanity of our frail and fallible species. He aspires to improve the lot of the voiceless in world affairs by seeking to improve the quality of the policies and strategies of the continent's and the world's most powerful through his commentary. This anthology is a guide through global politics from the unique vantage point of the individuals and communities that those politics affect.

Reflections on the Global Village: Opinion and Analysis

Politics & Social Sciences

Monyae PhD, David

Politics & Government

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Photographer and activist Zanele Muholi highlights the ruthless and often violent discrimination faced by black lesbians in South Africa. Through frank and intimate photographic portrayals—including the scars of hate crimes, the bonds between lovers, and the life lines of women living in society's margins—this compilation inspires a deeper understanding of blackness, the female form, skin tones, body types, and varying sexualities in a way that is unprecedented in South Africa.

Zanele Muholi: Only Half the Picture

Arts & Photography

Muholi, Zanele

Individual Artists

The first of three volumes, this account chronicles the story of one of South Africa’s greatest artists, Dumile Feni. Detailing Feni’s life from his birth in 1942 through his departure from South Africa in 1968, this beautifully illustrated workwith hundreds of Feni’s artworks and photographsoffers a riveting account of a struggling artist’s life during apartheid. A social commentary on what was happening in the South African art world at a particular time and place, this book reads like a history of the country as it connects Feni’s artworks to the experiences that inspired them.

Dumile Feni: The Story of a Great Artist (1)

Dube, Prince Mbusi

History & Criticism

Asserting that crime and growing unemployment remain the Achilles' heel of today's South Africa, this book calls for a new identity for South Africans, deliberately cast in industrial rather than political language. Pointing out that Africa has enough mineral wealth to be the wealthiest continent on the planet, the book asks Why then are South Africa and its neighbors still so poor? The answer to this question goes beyond the usual diatribe about African leaders being corrupt and Western nations being greedy. Instead the discussion critically examines South Africa's journey from apartheid to political freedom—and argues that economic bondage will give way when more engineers and new industries appear on the scene.

Bullets or Ballots?: The Ultimate Solution to Crime and Unemployment in South Africa

Business & Money

Richards, Dr. Ruben

Economics

Providing insight into South African values and culture, this book is a comprehensive study of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) and its role in history. Essentially, it examines the Contralesa’s position during the Mass Democratic Movement’s struggles in the late 1980s—when liberation movements were unbanned and their leaders were released from jail—as well as during the post-1994 era of Nelson Mandela. A valuable resource, this reference will captivate those interested in the issue of governance, institutional change, and the interface between designed modernity and surviving traditions.

A Double-Edged Sword: A Quest for a Place in the African Sun

History

Holomisa, Phathekile

Africa

A collection of favorite recipes by Nelson Mandela’s personal chef, this book contains the food served to visiting heads of state, celebrities, and politicians for more than 20 years. Featuring some of the former South African president’s favorite meals, including samp and beans, farm chicken, and tripe, this cookbook also features paella, peri-peri chicken, prawn curry, and a myriad of other delights. With simple, delicious, and nourishing recipes, it will interest those who wish to prepare meals that are both elegant and healthy. Handwritten notes from Mandela and Oprah Winfrey are also included.

Ukutya Kwasekhaya: Tastes from Nelson Mandela's Kitchen

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Ndoyiya, Xoliswa

Trapido, Anna

Regional & International

Published for the first time in one of South Africa&#8217;s nine official indigenous languages, Inkosana Encinci is the isiXhosa translation of The Little Prince, one of the world&#8217;s most beautiful and popular stories. A pilot forced to land in the Sahara meets a little prince who tells the pilot wise and enchanting stories of his own planet, with its three volcanoes and a haughty flower. A strange and wonderful parable for all ages, this translation contains the superb original illustrations by the author and will be sought after by collectors of this classic story the world over.

Inkosana Encinci: Kunye Nemizobo Yombhali

Saint-Exupèry, Antoine de

Philosophy

Today, more often than not, the Christian faithful are led to believe that money will buy their salvation, and that tithing is not an option but a mandatory act. This book confronts issues of Church corruption and, through Jack’s story, exposes the sickness of greed, lies, and manipulation that is now spread worldwide and across denominations. Supported by passages from scripture, this inspirational account affirms that tithing is not sanctioned in the New Testament.

Wicked Pastor

Religion & Spirituality

Ncamani, Sibulelo

Christian Books & Bibles

Challenging the standard approaches to social development practice and offering South African case studies as examples, this sociological work explores the relationship between government and communities. More than just a compendium of aggregate national and international data regarding social development practices, the book looks at the unique experiences of three South African communities, providing ample lessons for discourse. Building on the theoretical and methodological foundations of an actor-oriented form of analysis, Leslie M. Dikeni contests the generic, commonplace dynamic of state-citizen-market relations.

South African Development Perspectives in Question

Dikeni, Leslie

Corporate greed meets scientific altruism in Morad Zaffron's white-knuckle thriller, The Cure. Dr. Susan Conner, a beautiful but traumatized, drug-dependent widow, goes to work for a global pharmaceutical company dispensing a cure for a lethal virus. At first patients get better, but soon they begin vanishing or dying, and Susan suddenly finds her own life on the line. Believing her salvation might lie with Dr. Vincent Bach, the young scientist who developed the cure, she is desperate to find him; but she is on the run as a fugitive from the police and the FBI and is also being hunted by assassins hired by the drug corporation. A taut, tense medical drama, The Cure explores big business, new medicine, and whether true love can indeed conquer all.

The Cure

Literature & Fiction

Zaffron, Morad

Genre Fiction

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