In this extract from bell hooks’s book ‘Outlaw Culture’, (chapter title above) she expounds on women’s role in confronting rape culture

Imraan Coovadia’s new book examines how poison has shaped political affairs in Southern Africa

Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without the continent’s natural resources and centuries of cheap African labour

Gwen Lister’s book, ‘Comrade Editor’, weaves together a narrative from the strands of her own life, her journalism, and the wider context of Namibia’s struggle for independence

A Window on Soweto by Joyce Sikakane-Rankin provided insight during apartheid censorship

Shaun de Waal reviews three nonfiction books by Ruth Hopkins, Philippa Garson and Tom Eaton

Jacob Dlamini’s new book, The Terrorist Album, tells the stories of people saddled with that catch-all phrase during apartheid and how their presence on that list made them fair…