Tag: AfricanHistory

Africa’s islands offer extraordinary landscapes, fascinating histories and remarkable cultural diversity. In Treasured Islands, acclaimed travel writer and explorer Justin Fox takes readers on an unforgettable journey across the continent’s most captivating island destinations.

In this captivating collection of essays, Professor Tinyiko Maluleke invites readers on a journey. The journey begins with his eventful boyhood in Soweto. It continues through his life-changing upbringing in Limpopo. His heartfelt reflections on mothers, grandmothers and aunts stand at the centre of his story. He also explores their roles in his childhood and in the upbringing of his peers. In doing so, he highlights how these women shaped heroes and heroines across communities.

A new scholarly volume, Reappraising the Life and Legacy of Jan C Smuts, offers a fresh and wide-ranging examination of one of South Africa’s most influential and controversial historical figures, Jan C. Smuts. Moreover, the book positions Smuts within both national and global historical debates.