BOOKS

Miriam Tlali: Writing Freedom
Pumla Dineo Gqola

The first black woman in South Africa to publish a novel, Miriam Tlali (1933-2017) was also an internationally acclaimed playwright, author of short stories, essayist, and not least,    More >

Black Womanism in South Africa: Princess Emma Sandile
Janet Hodgson

Janet Hodgson tells the inspiring story of Emma Sandile (1842-1892)—Princess Emma, as she was known in southern African colonial circles—in a narrative that reads like a novel,    More >

Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa
Jonatan Kurzwelly and Luis Escobedo, editors

Against the backdrop of Bloemfontein in the heartland of South Africa—but with lessons that translate to immigrant communities on every continent and at every socioeconomic    More >

Contemporary Campus Life: Transformation, Manic Managerialism and Academentia
Keyan G. Tomaselli

Keyan Tomaselli's accessible critique of market-driven neoliberalism is offered as a metaphor to analyze the excesses, contradictions, and obstructions in contemporary university    More >

Making Institutions Work in South Africa
Daniel Plaatjies, editor

Making Institutions Work in South Africa places the structures and processes of institutionalization at the center of debates about democracy, state, and society in South Africa. As they    More >

The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy, 1978 to 2020
Barry Naughton

Can China's remarkable, rapid emergence as a large economy and technological power be attributed to specific policies, and more generally to a Chinese program of industrial policy? More    More >

The Political Economy of Education in the Arab World
Hicham Alaoui and Robert Springborg, editors

Despite substantial spending on education and robust support for reform both internally and by external donors, the quality of education in many, if not most, Arab countries remains low.    More >

The Women of 2018: The Pink Wave in the US House Elections ... and Its Legacy in 2020
Barbara Burrell

Avengers. PerSisters. The pink wave. And even badasses. These terms have been used to refer to the unprecedented number of female candidates who ran for elected office in the United States    More >

African Voices: In Search of a Decolonial Turn
Siphamandla Zondi

What does it mean to decolonize knowledge ... in the university, the school, the library, the museum? In the context of this question, Siphamandla Zondi explores the contributions of African    More >

Women’s Paths to Power: Female Presidents and Prime Ministers, 1960–2020
Evren Celik Wiltse and Lisa Hager

From Brazil to Bangladesh, Liberia to Switzerland, Malta to the Marshall Islands, more and more women are rising to the top level of political leadership. What can we learn from this?     More >

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