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Gaze Regimes: Film and feminisms in Africa

Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann, Max Annas, Beti Ellerson, Henriette Gunkel - 2015 - 264 pages
Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas as curators ...
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Reflections in Prison: Voices from the South African Liberation Struggle

Mac Maharaj - 2002 - 280 pages
In 1976, while imprisoned on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela secretly wrote the bulk of his authobiography, Long Walk to freedom. The manuscript was smuggled out, along with ...
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Soweto Blues: Jazz, Popular Music, and Politics in South Africa

Gwen Ansell - 2004 - 372 pages
A major new contribution to the study of African music, Soweto Blues tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggles in the 20th Century ...
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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New ...

Antjie Krog - 2007 - 434 pages
Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of ...
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From Revolution to Rights in South Africa: Social Movements, NGOs & Popular ...

Steven L. Robins - 2010 - 209 pages
The author argues for the continued importance of NGOs, social movements and other 'civil society' actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy in South Africa.
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Saving Nelson Mandela: The Rivonia Trial and the Fate of South Africa

Kenneth S. Broun - 2012 - 231 pages
Discusses the trials of Nelson Mandela and the politics of South Africa.
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The Unlikely Secret Agent

Ronnie Kasrils - 2012 - 192 pages
Winner of South Africa’s top literary prize, the Alan Paton Award, The Unlikely Secret Agent tells the thrilling true story of one woman’s struggle against the apartheid system ...
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