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Contains fourteen essays originally published between 1974 and 1996. Based on fieldwork conducted between 1969 and 1985, and on extensive archival research, the first six essays examine the social function of poetry in the community, the element of improvisation in the production of poetry. Individual poets are then presented.

As the only surviving statesman of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Jan Smuts arrived for the first session of the United Nations in New York in 1946 to celebratory chants. His departure, a month and a half later, was terrifyingly dissimilar. The "counsellor of nations” left a dejected man, with his honour, power and glory severely dented. This book chronicles the ambivalent cosmopolitanism of Jan Smuts.

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Imitation happened when an unsuspecting philosopher one day found himself equally outraged by South African president Jacob Zuma's Big Man building project in Nkandla, awed, all over again, by Milan Kundera's Immortality, and numbed by the monument to hubris generally known as "the highest basilica in all of Christendom”, Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire.

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The challenges for sustainable water management are massive. Yet, as shown in this book, there are many positives to be drawn from the southern African experience. This first volume in the Off-Centre series argues that we must learn to see water and the region differently if we are to meet present challenges and better prepare for an uncertain, climate-changing future.

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Crime fiction continues to be a burgeoning literary category in post-apartheid South Africa, with more new authors, titles and themes emerging every year. This book is the first comprehensive survey of South African crime fiction. It provides an overview of this phenomenally successful literary category, and places it within its wider social and historical context.

Mazisi Kunene is the much-celebrated author of epics, poems, short stories, nursery rhymes and proverbs. In UNodumehlezi KaMenzi (Emperor Shaka the Great), which he wrote during a period in exile, he positions Shaka as a legendary thinker, who had great skill as a strategic and military genius. This vision acknowledges and re-imagines Shaka as a unifying cultural and political force.

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Since 1963 Shelagh O'Byrne Spencer has been engaged in a massive research project to identify the emigrants who came to Natal from Britain before 1858, and to collect biographical material on them and their children. Although the work focuses on emigrants who came to settle in Natal, its interest and usefulness are not confined to this province.

This book brings together contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners supporting the solidarity economy alternative in South Africa, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Italy and the United States. For the first time there is an attempt to clarify, rather than codify, meanings of the solidarity economy, emphasise crucial theoretical concepts at work in the emergent solidarity economy, and highlight situated movement-building experiences and ...

In a series of interviews conducted between 2006 and 2010, activist and scholar Neville Alexander reflected on how the languages he had used throughout his life shaped his world and his relationships with his immediate and wider communities. In this reconstruction his belief in the emancipatory potential of multilingualism frames his vividly recalled life and his incisive observations about language in post-apartheid South Africa.

James Stuart was an official in the Natal colonial civil service in the 1890s and early years of the twentieth century. In recorded conversations with some 200 interlocutors, the majority of them Africans, he assembled a collection of notes on the history and customs of the Zulu and other peoples of what is now the KwaZulu-Natal region. This sixth volume presents a twenty-six sets of testimonies drawn from material in the James Stuart Collecti...

Twenty years after the end of apartheid rule, the claim that democratic South Africa is founded on the 'spirit of law' (nomos) of our shared humanity is questionable, to say the least.Some would argue that all talk of Ubuntu (or African humanism) should be dismissed as a passing fad of an exhausted nationalism. But a different response to the present is possible, one that proceeds from a temporary suspension (epoché) of the nationalist matrix ...

This book examines the African home as a key site of struggle in the making of modern KwaZulu-Natal, a South African province that instantiates in extreme form many of the transformations that shaped the colonial world.

In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the many facets of Krog's work. Essays focus on identity, race, gender, apartheid, trauma and transformation. There is also a thought-provoking interview with Krog on translation.

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