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
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS Wits University Press celebrates a century of scholarly publishing in South Africa in 2022. We also want to show you who we are, what we can achieve together, and the immense impact Wits University has in changing and shaping society for the better. #WitsForGood
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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
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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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