Books from Jacana Media

  • African Soul Talk: When Politics is Not Enough
    By Warren Goldstein, Dumani Mandela

    These upbeat discussions between Dumani Mandela and Rabbi Warren Goldstein cover politics, culture, religion, and nation building in South Africa.

  • Mr Hare Meets Mr Mandela
    By Chris van Wyk

    "Mr Hare finds a R200 note on his doorstep.

  • Seventh Street Alchemy: A Selection of Works from the Caine Prize for African Writing
    By Monica Arac de Nyeko, Brian Chikwava, Doreen Baingana

    The 2004 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Brian Chikwava's "Seventh Street Alchemy" is featured alongside shortlisted stories from 2004, compositions from the Caine Prize's March 2005 Workshop for African Writers, and Charles ...

  • A Landscape of Insects and Other Invertebrates
    By Duncan Neil MacFadyen

    "This book is intended to introduce readers to the great beauty, diversity and ecological importance of South African insects as found on the so-called Diamond Route. This is a range...

  • Love. Loss. Life
    By Monica Zwolsman

    This poignantly honest tale is a story of deep passion, crushing letdowns, new beginnings, huge humor, and the renewal of hope. It is also a book filled with penetrating insights into a South Africa in the 1990s, in political transition.

  • Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis
    By Michael Nassen Smith

    South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world, with a Gini coefficient of 0.63 in 2015.