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  • Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost

    by Dugmore Boetie, Barney Simon ...
    A fast-paced romp through apartheid-era South Africa that exemplifies the creative human capacity to overcome seemingly omnipotent enemies and overwhelming odds.The picaresque hero of this novel, Duggie, is a dispossessed black street kid turned con man. Duggie’s response to being confined to the lowest level of South Africa’s oppressive and humiliating racial hierarchy is to one-up its absurdity ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Woza Albert!

    by Mr Percy Mtwa, Mr Mbongeni Ngema, Mr Barney Simon ...
    Series series Student Editions
    Woza Albert! is one of the most popular and influential plays to have come out of the South African cultural struggle of the 1980s and a central work in the canon of South African theatre. Working with the idea of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ taking place in apartheid South Africa, the playwrights improvised a brilliant two-man show consisting of 26 vignettes, commenting on and satirising ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • A Grain of Wheat

    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe ...
    Series Book 2 - Penguin African Writers Series
    **Barack Obama, via Facebook: “A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships.”The Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer’s best-known novel, featuring an introduction by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah**Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Among The Thugs

    by Bill Buford ...
    What sort of man spends his Saturday afternoons with people named Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy? Bill Buford's acclaimed Among the Thugs is a book about the experience, and the attractions, of crowd violence. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • July's People

    by Nadine Gordimer ...
    **“So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book ReviewA startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**A violent war for equality has come to the white suburbs, driving out the ruling minorityFor years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa ... Read more

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  • Weep Not, Child

    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe ...
    Series Book 3 - Penguin African Writers Series
    The Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer’s powerful first novelTwo brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • My Traitor's Heart

    A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

    by Rian Malan ...
    An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in " a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage" (Michael Kerr).Rian Malan's classic work of reportage, My Traitor's Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways that earned him comparisons to Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuściński, and inspired the London Times to call him "South ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • House of Stone

    The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe

    by Christina Lamb ...
    A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.One bright morning Nigel Hough, one of the few remaining white farmers in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, received the news he was dreading – a crowd were at the gate demanding he surrender his home and land. To his horror, his family's much-loved nanny Aqui was ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Mukiwa

    A White Boy in Africa

    by Peter Godwin ...
    Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas, in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a governement-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa unfolds. The memoir follows Godwin's personal journey from the eve ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Country Of My Skull

    by Antjie Krog ...
    The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconcilliation Commission to establish a picture of the gross human rights violations committed between 1960 and 1993. It was to seek the truth and make it known to the public and to prevent these brutal events ever happening again. From 1996 and over the following two ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Book of Paul

    The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating

    by Russell Marks ...
    Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating – at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best.Paul lets rip – on John Howard: “The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on.”On Peter Costello: “The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg.”On John Hewson: “[His performance] is like being flogged with a warm ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Lion Sleeps Tonight

    And Other Stories of Africa

    by Rian Malan ...
    An essay collection that offers "a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa" from the bestselling author of My Traitor's Heart ( The Sunday Times).The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan's remarkable chronicle of South Africa's halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. In the title story, Malan investigates the provenance of the world-famous song, ... Read more

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