This volume grapples with contemporary conspicuous consumption in Africa, its history and how it ...

This volume includes D.D.T. Jabavu’s account of his journey to India in 1949, in the original isi...

The essays in this volume utilise the idea of public intellectualism as an interpretive prism and...

A collection of essays celebrating the centenaries of Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyemb...

Examining the historical foundations, the struggle to establish a university in Johannesburg, ...

With a rich tradition of civic and political life here is a persuasive explanation for the violen...

If postapartheid literature’s founding moment was the ‘transition’ to democracy, writing over the...

A deeply felt account of the relationship between a mother and son, and an exploration of what ca...

Through investigatory reports and interviews, Jonathan Jansen reveals the structural conditions f...

Like Family examines the ambivalent position of domestic workers in South Africa in the contact z...

The first volume in the series, 2010: Development or Decline? ranges widely across the implicatio...

Relating the history of the immigration policies of the South African state between 1919 and 2008...