African Studies 2022-23

AFRICAN STUDIES 2022-2023

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AFRICAN HISTORY ARCHIVES OF TIMES PAST

BONES AND BODIES

Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History Edited by Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Helen Ludlow

336 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776147274

Critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that have been used to tell southern Africa’s pre-colonial story

How South African Scientists Studied Race Alan G Morris A critical examination of the history of evolutionary anthropology in South Africa, uncovering its often racist past 304 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776147236

WITS UNIVERSITY AT 100

WITS

A University in the Apartheid Era Mervyn Shear

From Excavation to Innovation University of the Witwatersrand

234 PP | PAPER | $40 9781776147359

Maps the university’s current and future vision as it marks its centenary in 2022 398 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776148042

WITS: THE EARLY YEARS

WITS: THE ‘OPEN’ YEARS

A history of the University up to 1939, from the date of its establishment in 1922

Investigates the process by which Wits developed as an ‘open university’, admitting students of all races

A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and its Precursors 1896-1939 Bruce Murray

412 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776148080

A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 1939-1959 Bruce Murray

448 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776148127

COLOUR, CLASS AND COMMUNITY

CUBA AND AFRICA, 1959-1994

A history of the inner workings of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) during the 1970s and 1980s up to the first democratic elections in 1994

A history of Atlantic solidarity between Cuba and Africa, in struggle for African independence from colonial powers

The Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994 Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed

392 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776147151

Tells the story of how the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) adapted to the political and social developments in South Africa under apartheid

Writing an Alternative Atlantic History Edited by Kali Argyriadis, Giulia Bonacci, and Adrien Delmas

344 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776146338

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AFRICAN HISTORY CAPE RADICALS

BILL FREUND

Intellectual and Political Thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s-1960s Crain Soudien

232 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776143177

The history of a radical group of intellectuals who founded the New Era Fellowship, which shaped human rights precedents and social justice policy in South Africa

An Historian’s Passage to Africa Bill Freund The first biography of an eminent historian and leading analyst of African history

238 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776146727

OUR CHANGING WORLD-VIEW

270 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776145553

Ten Lectures on Recent Movements of Thought in Science, Economics, Education, Literature and Philosophy R. Broom, J.P. Dalton, J.Y.T. Greig, T.J. Haarhoff, R.F.A. Hoernlé, H.S. Frankel, I.D. Maccrone, J.F.V. Phillips, C.S. Richards, J.C. Smuts A somber reflection on intellectual history

PATRICK VAN RENSBURG

Rebel, Visionary and Radical Educationist, a Biography Kevin Shillington

376 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776146048

Unique history of an anti-apartheid activist and self-made ‘alternative educationist’ whose work received international recognition

ART AND ART HISTORY VISUALISING CHINA IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

TROUBLING IMAGES

Visual Culture and the Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism Edited by Federico Freschi, Brenda Schmahmann, Lize van Robbroeck

Biography, Circulation, Transgression Edited by Juliette Leeb-du Toit, Ruth Simbao, Ross Anthony 344 PP | PAPER | $80 9781776147670

Engages with the work of contemporary artists.

ACTS OF TRANSGRESSION

Contemporary Live Art in South Africa Edited by Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle

336 PP | PAPER | $50 9781776142798

Explores the experimental field of contemporary live art in South Africa, focusing on a wide range of perspectives

328 PP | PAPER | $50 9781776144716

Examines how art and visual culture helped to secure hegemonic claims to the nation-state via the construction of a unified Afrikaner imaginary

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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT CORRUPTED

STATE CAPTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA

A Study of Chronic Dysfunction in South African Universities Jonathan D Jansen

How and Why It Happened Edited by Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Peter Vale

Offers a promising way forward for universities to better serve their communities and the country more broadly 312 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776147946

A scholarly analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and how it was contested

288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776148318

EPISTEMIC JUSTICE AND THE POSTCOLONIAL UNIVERSITY

DECOLONISATION IN UNIVERSITIES

The Politics of Knowledge Edited by Jonathan Jansen South African scholars come together to trade stories on how to decolonize the university

Edited by Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi, Shari Daya

256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776147847

A study on curriculum transformation, epistemic violence and what justice can look like in South Africa’s spaces of teaching, learning and research.

286 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776143351

GOVERNANCE AND THE POSTCOLONY

LAND, LAW AND CHIEFS IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA

Views from Africa Edited by David Everatt

340 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776143443

Contested Histories and Current Struggles Edited by William Beinart, Rosalie Kingwill, and Gavin Capps

A collection of case studies for those in the field of African international relations, public policy, public management and administration 344 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776146796

ONE VIRUS, TWO COUNTRIES

PRISONERS OF THE PAST

What COVID-19 Tells Us About South Africa Steven Friedman

South African Democracy and the Legacy of Minority Rule Steven Friedman

Offers a searing analysis of government and expert scientists’ responses to the pandemic

168 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776147434

Illustrates contestations over land and political authority in South Africa’s rural areas

Argues that the difficulties besetting South African democracy are legacies of the past, not products of the post-1994 era 232 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776146840

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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT DESTROYING DEMOCRACY

RACISM AFTER APARTHEID

Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Authoritarian Politics Edited by Michelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar

Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism Edited by Vishwas Satgar Brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism

A history of the erosion of democracy across the globe 248 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776146994

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Also available open access 264 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776143061

SHADOW OF LIBERATION

BRICS AND THE NEW AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996 Vishnu Padayachee and Robert Van Niekerk

292 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776143955

Explores the intricate twists and turns of ANC economic and social policymaking

Global Rivalry and Resistance Edited by Vishwas Satgar

256 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776145287

VIOLENCE, SLAVERY AND FREEDOM BETWEEN HEGEL AND FANON

176 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776146239

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PRECARIOUS POWER

Compliance and Discontent Under Ramaphosa’s ANC Susan Booysen

Edited by Ulrike Kistner and Philippe Van Haute A deep dive into the influences of Hegelian thought on the work of Frantz Fanon

Challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism

An incisive analysis of South Africa’s ANC power-as party, as government, as state 328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776146451

PSYCHOLOGY BECOMING MEN

WHY MEN HURT WOMEN AND OTHER REFLECTIONS ON LOVE, VIOLENCE AND MASCULINITY

Black Masculinities in a South African Township Malose Langa Essential reading for anybody wishing to understand Black masculinity in South Africa

202 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776145676

288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776147632

Kopano Ratele Uses conversations, observations, and reflections to mediate on love, violence and masculinity

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PSYCHOLOGY BEING BLACK IN THE WORLD

THE WORLD LOOKS LIKE THIS FROM HERE

N Chabani Manganyi

Thoughts on African Psychology Kopano Ratele

Reflections on what it meant to be Black during the apartheid years, by South Africa’s first Black psychologist

176 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776143689

Builds a compelling case for thinking and doing psychology differently in and for Africa 248 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776143900

CHILDREN IN MIND

HOW I LOST MY MOTHER

Their Mental health in Today’s World and What We Can Do to Help Them Jenny Perkel

200 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776147472

A psychologist’s guide for parents, care-givers and health care practitioners to the emotional challenges facing children and their parents today

A Story of Life, Care, and Dying Leslie Swartz A deeply felt exploration of what care for the dying means in contemporary society

252 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776146949

SOCIAL SCIENCE ETHNOGRAPHIES OF POWER

EMANCIPATORY FEMINISM IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

Working Radical Concepts with Gillian Hart Edited by Sharad Chari, Mark Hunter, and Melanie Samson

240 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776146666

Argues for an approach to engage contemporary political-economic processes in the context of real world struggles Also available open access

Rethinking Social Reproduction Edited by Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse An eco-socialist feminist analysis of the current social reproduction debate in South Africa 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776148264

CITIZEN AND PARIAH

IN THE BALANCE

The Case for a Universal Basic Income in South Africa and Beyond Hein Marais

Somali Traders and the Regulation of Difference in South Africa Vanya Gastrow

Examines the need and prospects for a UBI

Explores the fragility of law, pluralism and democracy in South Africa, through the experiences of Somali shopkeepers 224 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776147397

Also available open access

Also available open access.

292 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776147724

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SOCIAL SCIENCE THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ARCHIE MAFEJE

DECOLONISING THE HUMAN

Bongani Nyoka

Reflections from Africa on Difference and Oppression Edited by Melissa Steyn and William Mpofu

Analyses the overall scholarship of Archie Mafeje and his role as a theoretician of liberation and revolutionary theory

Examines the ongoing project of constituting ‘the human’ in light of the durability of coloniality and multiple oppressions 260 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776146512

288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776145942

SEEKING SANCTUARY

CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION IN AFRICA

Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration John Marnell

Edited by Deborah Posel and Ilana van Wyk

A glimpse into the lives of LGBTQ migrants in Johannesburg, in their own words

A collection of essays examining cultures of consumption on the African continent 256 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776143641

284 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776147106

SAN ELDERS SPEAK

CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS OF THE |XAM

Ancestral Knowledge of the Kalahari San Lucinda Backwell and Francesco d’Errico

304 PP | PAPER | $80 9781776146628

Documents indigenous knowledge and uses of San material culture and artefacts collected a century ago

Jeremy Hollmann

Brings together a wide range of |xam beliefs and key narratives as told to Bleek and Lloyd by |xam teachers.

446 PP | CLOTH | $75 9781776147762

POLITICS AND COMMUNITYBASED RESEARCH

430 PP | CLOTH | $80 9781776143849

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TRANSFORMING RESEARCH METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg Edited by Claire BénitGbaffou, Sarah Charlton, Sophie Didier and Kirsten Dörmann

Case Studies from South Africa Edited by Sumaya Laher, Angelo Flynn and Sherianne Kramer

Provides a textured analysis of a contested urban space

A look at the research methods in development across the global South

Also available open access

456 PP | PAPER | $40 9781776142750

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CULTURAL, MEDIA, AND FILM STUDIES UNCOVERING MEMORY

BABEL UNBOUND

Rage, Reason and Rethinking Public Life Edited by Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton

Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina Tanja Sakota

Writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied

Encourages readers to self-reflect as they explore their own memory using the camera and short film format 292 PP | PAPER | $50 9781776145898

384 PP | PAPER | $40 9781776147984

PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS IN SOUTH AFRICA

FALLING MONUMENTS, RELUCTANT RUINS

Critical Voices from the Past Edited by Chris Broodryk

The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid Edited by Hilton Judin

Gives voice to those who have been marginalized and silenced in South African history 272 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776146895

336 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776146673

POWER AND LOSS IN SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNALISM

TELL OUR STORY

Multiplying Voices in the News Media Julie Reid and Dale T. McKinley

News in the Age of Social Media Glenda Daniels

Argues that some groups are being deliberately ignored by dominant news media

Analyzes the crisis of journalism in contemporary South Africa 232 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776145997

234 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776145775

ANXIOUS JOBURG

CIVILISING GRASS

The Inner Lives of a Global South City Edited by Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden

The Art of the Lawn on the South African Highveld Jonathan Cane Explores the complex relationship between landscape and power in the country’s colonial, modernist and post-apartheid eras

An interdisciplinary account of the life of Johannesburg, South Africa’s “Global South city”

296 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776146284

Examines the ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa’s oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid

268 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776143108

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LITERATURE AND LITERARY STUDIES I WRITE THE YAWNING VOID

READING FROM THE SOUTH

Selected Essays of Sindiwe Magona Sindiwe Magona, compiled and edited by Renée Schatteman

African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s Work Edited by Charne Lavery and Sarah Nuttall

Essays that addresses themes such as HIV/Aids, language and culture, home and belonging

Covers the work of a leading scholar of print cultures and intellectual trajectories in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

200 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776148363

328 PP | PAPER | $30 971776148189

AND WROTE MY STORY ANYWAY

SURFACING

On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa Edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon

Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism Barbara Boswell

An anthology dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist writing

Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent Black female writers 328 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776146093

264 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776146185

FOUNDATIONAL AFRICAN WRITERS

MONARCHS, MISSIONARIES AND AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS

Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele Edited by Bhekizizwe Peterson, Makhosazana Xaba, and Khwezi Mkhize

232 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776147519

Explores the complexities of Black existence in the work and legacies of centenarian writers

African Theatre and the Unmaking of Colonial Marginality Bhekizizwe Peterson

338 PP | PAPER | $30 9781868143283

IN INDIA AND EAST AFRICA E-INDIYA NASE EAST AFRICA

320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776144761

A Travelogue in isiXhosa and English Edited by Tina Steiner, Mhlobo Jadezweni, Catherine Higgs, and Evan M. Mwangi An educationist and politician’s journey to bring Mahatmas Gandhi’s teachings of pacifism to a South African audience.

Probes the complex entanglements of different intellectual traditions in the South African context, through case studies

CAN THEMBA

The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography Siphiwo Mahala A biography of an iconic figure of the South African literary world and Drum journalist who died in exile

312 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776147311

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LITERATURE AND LITERARY STUDIES BAFANA REPUBLIC AND OTHER SATIRES

DOING PLAYS FOR A CHANGE

Five Works Maishe Maponya

A Collection of Monologues and Revues Mike van Graan

Plays from a period in the country’s history marked by intense repression and escalating violence

A collection of satirical sketches describing many of the issues that face democratic South Africa 192 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776145867

180 PP | PAPER | $20 9781868142422

YOU STRIKE A WOMAN, YOU STRIKE A ROCK / WATHINT’ ABAFAZI, WATHINT’ IMBOKOTHO

MOTSWASELE II

Leetile Disang Raditladi

The first historical drama written by a Motswana author, highlighing the importance of traditional rule

A Play Phyllis Klotz, Thobeka Maqhutyana, Nomvula Qosha, and Poppy Tsira 106 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776147205

An example of protest theatre during apartheid

66 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776140800

PELONG YA KA

DINTSHONTSHO TSA BO – JULIUSE KESARA

Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng

A collection of essays and sketches by one of the greatest writers in Southern Sotho

128 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776140435

William Shakespeare and Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje A translation into Setswana of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, by the renowned South African thinker, writer and linguist 54 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776140619

SENKATANA

AMAL’EZULU

Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi The second volume of poetry produced by the renowned Zulu author B.W. Vilakazi

A tragic play adapted from Sotho folk narrative, a classic of Sesotho literature

128 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776140411

51 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776140596

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LITERATURE AND LITERARY STUDIES UKUFA KUKASHAKA

LIKE FAMILY

Domestic Workers in South African History and Literature Ena Jansen

Elliot Zondi

A historical drama, based on the events surrounding the assassination of Shaka, the mighty Zulu king, in 1828

An analytic and historical perspective of literary texts to understand the position of domestic workers

382 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776143511

54 PP | PAPER | $18 9781776140718

INKONDLO KAZULU Benedict Wallet Vilakazi The first book of poems ever published in isiZulu

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71 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776140657

NYU PRESS WOMEN IN YORUBA RELIGIONS

FALLING, FLOATING, FLICKERING

Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance Hershini Bhana Young

Oyèrónké Oládémo Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on women’s religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality 320 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479818457

200 PP | PAPER | $22 9781479813995

FROTTAGE

TO LIVE FREELY IN THIS WORLD

Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora Keguro Macharia

Sex Worker Activism in Africa Chi Adanna Mgbako

A new understanding of freedom in the Black diaspora grounded in the erotic

224 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479865017

In Crip Series

Tells the story of the brave activists at the beating heart of the sex workers’ rights movement in Africa

272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479849062

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