Real imprint: 146 books
by Olu Ajakaiye, Judith Fessehaie, Afeikhena Jerome
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Most of the African continent has, over the past two decades, experienced high rates of economic growth. Analysis of that has focused mainly on the reasons behind that surge, the impact on people's quality of life, and the extent of regional and continent-wide integration. This study examines those...
Authentic African Leadership
Authentic African Leaders Defined and the Techniques That Made Them Great
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Telling the untold South African stories of courage, fortitude, and the desire to succeed against all odds, Authentic African Leadership is a compilation of true leadership stories written by top leaders in corporate South Africa who Gail Cameron, founder of the Image Excellence Group, has coached...
by Shanthee Manjoo
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
From the opening Sanskrit mantra to the final act of voting in South Africa's first democratic elections, this lyrical memoir provides a unique perspective on South Africa's modern history. The account shows how a young Hindu woman of Indian ancestry, living in South Africa in the 1940s, defied convention,...
by Peter Morris
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A young man arrives in Johannesburg from a village in northern Mozambique and is conscripted into one of the city’s oldest organized crime syndicates. Joao Mucavinho soon learns who really runs this bad city: who controls the money, the “kwash,” and the turn of the dice. But the city is on the...
Emergence of Systems of Innovation in South(ern) Africa:
Long Histories and Contemporary Debates
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book traces the history of innovations from precolonial times and examines precolonial settlements in southern Africa such as Mapungubwe in LImpopo Province, Bokoni in Mpumalanga Province, and Msuluzi in KwaZulu-Natal Province from the perspective of their indigenous technological efforts to...
To Breathe into Another Voice
A South African Anthology of Jazz Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
‘Writing about jazz is like dancing about architecture,' observed TheloniousMonk. It's possibly one of the few times he was wrong. Jazz poetry is almostas old as jazz itself. Poets such as Thulani Davis, Langston Hughes and ourown Keorapetse Kgositsile and Mongane Wally Serote have long heard thepatterns...
Nation Formation and Social Cohesion
An Enquiry into the Hopes and Aspirations of South Africans
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The fieldwork and case studies contained in this book were gathered from one-on-one interviews with residents of four of South Africa’s nine provinces (Western Cape, Northern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and Gauteng). To those living beyond the country’s borders, it provides insights into their daily...
Essays on the Evolution of the Post-Apartheid State
Legacies, Reforms and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This book critically examines the challenges, successes, and failures of the post-1994 South African state against the humane values enshrined in its constitution: nonracial democracy and respect for all generations of human rights—civil, political, social, economic, resources and the environment...
Role of Intellectuals
In the State-Society Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
If we are to talk of a 'new' intellectual movement, the question is begged: what happened to the 'old' intellectual movement? What happened to the thinkers who inspired and led our struggle against colonialism, apartheid and exploitation? In pursuit of answers to these questions, MISTRA hosted a roundtable...
by Hester du Plessis, Leonard Martin, Jeffrey Sehume
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In the past four decades, transdisciplinarity has gained conceptual and practical traction for its transformative value in accounting for the complex challenges besetting humankind, including social relations and natural ecosystems. The need to develop frameworks for joint problem-solving involving...
Building Blocks Towards an African Century
Essays in Honour of Thabo Mbeki Former President of the Republic of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
In 2012, the University of South Africa, in partnership with the Thabo Foundation, hosted African intellectuals at a colloquium themed 'Mbeki@70'. The essays presented on that day were collected and edited into this book. What is reflected in the essays goes beyond the person of Thabo Mbeki to include...
Mapungubwe Reconsidered: A Living Legacy
Exploring Beyond the Rise and Decline of the Mapungubwe State
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape is one of the profound treasures of southern Africa's social and archaeological history, appropriately declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in 2003. Contained within this landscape is indispensable...
Secret sanglant
Secret McQueen, T2
Language: French
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Après avoir trompé la mort deux fois en une nuit, révélé sa vraie nature à ses âmes sœurs loups-garous et avoir été invitée à tuer un de ses amis les plus proches, Secret a pris des vacances bien méritées. En s’enfuyant.
Maintenant, elle est de retour en ville – contrainte...
Sombre Secret
Secret McQueen, T3
Language: French
Release Date: June 7, 2019
Secret McQueen chasse les vampires, les loups-garous, et toutes sortes de créatures dangereuses. On pourrait croire qu’elle a déjà tout vu. Et pourtant... Quand la Reine des ocelots-garous vient lui demander de l’aide pour retrouver une jeune fille, l’hybride moitié vampire moitié loup-garou...