This book assesses how far South Africa has come in uprooting poverty since this pronouncement. It traces developments from the end of the apartheid economic system, that institutionalised and perpetuated pover…

The scholarship that forms the backbone of this work developed in a period of change in South Africa which precipitated a search for moral accountability and the place of old religions in the new order. Religio…

A Brief History of Creation deals with Old Testament narratives and traditions about creation from new perspectives, in order to reconstruct the implied picture of creation assumed by traditional material, and …

South Africa and immigration is debated in the entire Southern African region, and in wider debates on global migratory trends. This study engages with some strands of this topic, for example South Africa’s int…

The background to this book is giving an understanding of the unique characteristics of African people, which tend to be overlooked in business situations. It draws educational parallels between the concept of …

This study presents a break with previous literary criticism that has vilified orality, in an effort to understand the interface between orality and the black Zimbabwean novel. It traces the ways in which the A…

The author offers a unique way of looking at information. Through the representations of information, we make sense of its meaning. These representations come from experiences we have, for example, with informa…

Architecture can play an important part in redressing the problems inherited from South Africa’s past, and in reflecting the paradigms and changing value system of a transforming society. This critical study pr…

An account of what was achieved in rocket science development, and early space exploration in South Africa in the era of the space- race; and the story of a group of amateur rocket pioneers whose work to expand…

This is the first formal publication of two early plays by Soyinka, The Invention (1959) and The Detainee (1965). Widely regarded as Soyinka’s first play, The Invention reflects the obsession with race that mar…

This is an unconventional, contemporary biography of Thabo Mbeki, the current South African President, with a strong journalistic slant, focusing on representations in the media, and how media images of him hav…

The study tracks the trend towards liberalisation and decentralisation in the book sector in many African countries in the 1990s, giving examples of different partnerships and practices underway inEthiopia, Gha…

This is a powerful and sobering collection of photographs, bringing to light and documenting some of the most tragic aspects of Africa’s recent social history. Beautifully produced with som 124 duo-tone photogr…