From Ensimbini, in the village of Somizi, in the shadow of the Ntokozo Hills, within the Kingdom of Langabi, during the reign of King Diliza, the cousin of Langabi’s founder, the late Queen Sukumani, there comes a hero.

This is the first concentrated study of the Casbah that brings together newspaper reports, interviews, and academic studies. It is a beguiling narrative of a place that continues to live in the memory and still pulsates with life as migrants from across the world find their feet on pavements that were always open to global influences. The book includes extraordinary photographs collected over the last twenty years.

Volume 5 of this magnificent historical record continues the indispensable study of the struggle for freedom and justice in South Africa. In addition to extensive background essays, it includes formal documents, underground and ephemeral materials, and statements written in exile or in Robben Island prison that have not previously been published.

This second edition of From protest to challenge revives the classic work of Thomas Karis and Gwendolen Carter and provides an indispensable resource for students and scholars of African history, race and ethnicity, identity politics, democratic transitions, and conflict resolution. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance and generosity of all those who helped to make this book possible.

From protest to challenge is a multi-volume chronicle of the struggle to achieve democracy and end racial discrimination in South Africa. Beginning in 1882 during the heyday of European imperialism, these volumes document the history of race conflict, protest, and political mobilisation by South Africa’s black majority.

Ntsiko (1850–1918) wrote under the pseudonym ‘Hadi waseluhlangeni’, the National Harp. This volume contains two substantial essays, by Marguerite Poland and Jeff Opland, that offer an account, for the first time, of Ntsiko’s life and times, his early schooling in Grahamstown, his three years of study in England, his ordination as a deacon in the Anglican Church and his ten-year career in church service, ending abruptly in the termination of his license.

This book profiles over six hundred individual activists who played important political roles during the century before the abolition of apartheid in 1990. Among those included are John Dube, Clements Kadalie, Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, Beyers Naude, and Joe Slovo, as well as Ellen Kuzwayo, Jay Naidoo, Robert McBride, P.K. Leballo and Patricia de Lille. These books are a wonderful resource for future generations of scholars. The publication of Vol. 4 completes the series.

Imbiza Journal is a dynamic literary landscape that recognizes African canonical writers while discovering new voices across the field of humanities and social sciences.

The Modern South African Edition of the Communist Manifesto Includes:

Leon Trotsky’s Afrikaans Introduction to the 1937 edition with an English translation

Neville Alexander’s 2002 Introduction in isiZulu and English to the isiZulu translation of The Communist Manifesto

A new isiZulu translation of The Communist Manifesto

Jeremy Cronin’s Introduction to this edition

The Struggle for African Independent Education focuses on the Wilberforce Institute, one of the first major independent African schools in segregationist South Africa.