Jacana: 156 books

“Searing, heartbreaking, triumphant: Brutal Legacy is for anyone who's been punched in the face by someone they loved and then stood up again. It's for every mother who has run, every sister who has picked up the pieces and every friend who hasn't fled. It's for every brother who's cried and for...

The Goddess Mojo Bootcamp is for women; women who want to attract a man, or two, or three ... Women who want a man for a reason, a season, a lifetime, or one to match each of her handbags ... It has zero moral pontifications. It won't warn you against sleeping with a man on the first date. There are...

Written by eminent scholars on Africa and practitioners who have worked in or with the African Union (AU), this report brings together the analysis and research of 17 largely Pan-African scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and civil society representatives. A particularly timely and welcome addition...

Much can be learned about the condition of the planet’s environment by looking at sea turtles; they have existed for more than 100 million years, and they travel throughout the world’s oceans. Suddenly, however, they are struggling to survive, largely because of harm that has been done to the...

Searching for something more than her high-flying life as an information technology executive, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged First World existence to start a new life with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe: the country’s flagship clan of over 450 wild elephants. This biography follows...

Describing the dichotomy of being both revered and reviled, this memoir traces the story of a sangoma-a traditional healer-who is also a lesbian. Descriptions of traditional African healing practices and rituals are provided alongside the personalized account of one woman acting as a mirror to the daily hardships and indignities felt by members of the gay community in Africa.

450 is optimistically the number of free-ranging African wild dogs left in South Africa. The immediate future of this dynamic, endangered, large carnivore is in the hands of a thinly spread, intensely committed network of conservationists, donors, state reserves and progressive landowners. When an...

Born To Kwaito considers the meaning of kwaito music now. ‘Now' not only as in ‘after 1994' or the Truth Commission but as a place in the psyche of black people in post-apartheid South Africa.This collection of essays tackles the changing meaning of the genre after its decline and its ever-contested...

“I realise what they did to me in there. How they turned me into a savage, only half human, bathing in a trough and eating food fit for animals and locking me in a cage every night.” – Vanessa Goosen, Drug Muled It’s 1994. South Africa is on the brink of freedom. On the verge of a big break...

The story of a once promising young musician, this autobiography demonstrates how Roger Lucey’s life journey was radically changed by the South African apartheid. Having performed songs that reflected upon the cruelty and violence of late 1970s South Africa, Lucey drew unwanted attention from the...

In a world of outright denial and selective amnesia and of complex financial transactions designed to confuse, obfuscate, and hide the spoils, this book unravels one of South Africa’s biggest cover-ups. This account tackles the shady financial dealings—a fraud that in today’s terms amounts to...

A portrait of visionary leadership, this study of the Bafokeng people describes how they acquired their land and protected their customs during 150 years of political upheaval in South Africa. In addition, the book provides a look at the current state of affairs in Royal Bafokeng Nation: the community...

Despite being only 33 years old, Zoleka Mandela has endured enough to fill several lifetimes. While she may be a member of South Africa’s own royal family, Zoleka has not led a sheltered life. She has traveled down paths which most would not dare; from the horror of losing two children within two...

Despite the more general social, political and economic advances that have been made under the ANC's rule since 1994, power has not only remained in the hands of a small minority but has increasingly been exercised in service to capital. This has seen the ANC become the key political vehicle, in party...