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Rapid population growth, poor infrastructure, and inadequate housing markets, all combined with haphazard urban planning, have created unprecedented levels of poverty and inequality in    More >

Global South Rising? addresses a provocative question: Can BRICS reshape global knowledge hierarchies? The contributors examine the BRICS' rise in the context of its ambition to    More >

Three Soweto playwrights. Three distinctive theatrical styles. Each using plays to communicate messages of humanism, Black Consciousness, and Black solidarity. Andile Xaba traces the    More >

How do governments approach, understand, and even justify assassination? What methods have been used historically, and how do they differ from current practice? What are the consequences of    More >

In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Muslims became the targets of fear, discrimination, and hate crimes—victims of a rising wave of    More >

Born in Southern Rhodesia, self-made intellectual Edson Sithole (1935–1975?) was a lawyer (the first Black person in southern Africa to earn a doctorate in law), an anticolonial    More >

The Covid-19 pandemic. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Cybercrime and ecocide. Outer space. Global warming. These are just a few of the myriad issues that are the subjects, and sometimes    More >

Scholars, activists, and artists come together in this innovative collection to highlight the power of dialogue as a mode of knowledge production in building and sustaining African feminist    More >

This vibrant collection captures thirty years of democracy through the lived experiences of diverse South African communities. Moving from QwaQwa to Vuwani, Soweto, Langa, Luka, Platfontein,    More >

The role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in international politics has changed significantly in the two decades since the first edition of this book was published. This new edition    More >