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Featured Book: Noni Jabavu: A Stranger at Home
This August marks one hundred years since the birth of Noni Jabavu. Makhosazana Xaba reflects on the life of this legendary writer: a woman of words, and a citizen of the world. ‘Noni Jabavu returns home’ is the title of a biographical fragment I wrote during the first semester of my MA at Wits University in […]
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Featured Book: Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
In Abolition Geography, contemporary thinker Ruth Wilson Gilmore looks at crime, incarceration and alternatives that focus on social upliftment rather than the prison-industrial complex. American scholar and activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore is one of the most important contemporary thinkers on the key political issues of crime, police power and justice. In her 2007 book Golden Gulag, she […]
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Featured Book: Shoot to Kill: Police and Power in South Africa by Christopher McMichael
This interview is republished from The Johannesburg Review of Books website. What today exists as South Africa cannot be understood outside of violence, whose origins require us to turn to the antiblack settler colonial capitalist and patriarchal order that produced suffering that spans across generations. The continuities of this violence not only challenge our understanding […]
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Featured Book: Crossroads: I Live Where I Like
This interview was taken from Black Agenda Report This book challenges the myth that 1994 was the turning point in South Africa – because the liberation process is unfinished. “Forced removals were not considered in the famous 1994 Truth and Reconciliation Process.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their […]
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Featured Book: Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph
This review was written by Niren Tolsi and originally appeared on New Frame The new novel, Children of Sugarcane, reckons with the “colonial fingerprints” on our contemporary society, while providing a nuanced view of indenture and its afterlives. Joanne Joseph isn’t as tall as she appears on television. This is the first, and most banal, impression […]
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Featured Book: Red Road To Freedom by Tom Lodge
This is a lightly edited excerpt from Jeremy Cronin’s review of Tom Lodge’s book Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party 1921–2021 (Jacana, 2021). This review was first published in the centenary edition of African Communist (Issue 205, Second and third quarters 2021). In late July 1921 a pioneer Communist Party of South Africa, later renamed […]
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Featured book: Silvia Federici – Beyond the periphery of the skin
In a time of ecological crisis, it is unsurprising that questions of the body have become a focal point within contemporary radical politics. One of the great strengths of Silvia Federici’s peerless work in this regard is to remind us that bodies have multiple histories. There are the histories of techniques of capturing and disciplining […]
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Featured Book: Kathryn Yusoff – A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Kathryn Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None locates the origins of climate change in slavery while exploring the grammars of capture, extraction and displacement.
