Land Matters: South Africa's Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead
By: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
4.02
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In Land Matters, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles the past, present, and future of the land question in …
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1. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
By: Jocko Willink , Leif Babin
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestseller Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Le… read more
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2. Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life
By: Gary John Bishop
3.84
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
Have you ever felt like a hamster on a wheel, furiously churning your way through life but somehow … read more
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"You change your life by doing, not by thinking about doing."-Gary John Bishop, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life
"There aren't any roadsigns when you're trekking through uncharted territory. It's all discovery and exploration."-Gary John Bishop, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life
3. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
4. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Desmond Tutu , Douglas Carlton Abrams
4.38
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face … read more
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"What the Dalai Lama and I are offering,"-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
"It is not happiness that makes us grateful, it’s gratefulness that makes us happy."-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
"The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience."-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
"Our perspective toward life is our final and ultimate freedom. - Viktor Frankl quoted by Desmond Tutu"-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
5. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
6. Architects Of Poverty
By: Moeletsi Mbeki , Moletsi Mbeki
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Of an estimated 1 billion people in the world who are trapped in a cycle of grinding poverty and de… read more
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7. The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
By: Martin Meredith
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"The fortunes of Africa have changed dramatically in the fifty years since the independence era beg… read more
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8. The Quiet Violence of Dreams
By: K. Sello Duiker
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bound to make waves. In this daring novel, the author gives a startling account of the inner workin… read more
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9. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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11. The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
By: Jason Hickel
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
For decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. … read more
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12. Khwezi: The remarkable story of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo
By: None
3.97
Format: 176 pages,
In May 2006 Jacob Zuma was found not guilty of the rape of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo - better known… read more
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13. I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
By: Desmond Tutu , Steve Biko , None , None , Lewis R. Gordon
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Like all of St… read more
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14. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
15. Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
By: Antjie Krog , Charlayne Hunter-Gault , Luke Mitchell
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Paperback
Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind… read more
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16. The Grass is Singing
By: Doris Lessing
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of h… read more
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17. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
18. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4.52
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more
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"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
19. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
20. Butter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more
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"Death is only a doorway."-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
21. Kaikeyi
By: Vaishnavi Patel
4.19
Format: 478 pages, Hardcover
“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good … read more
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"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good."-Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi
22. A Girl Is a Body of Water
By: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
4.15
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted h… read more
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"Remember, be a good person, not a good girl. Good girls suffer a lot in this life."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Explore it, love it, find out what it is capable of before you hand it over to a man."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Stories are critical, Kirabo. The minute we fall silent, someone will fill the silence for us."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Children do absolutely nothing on their arrival that warrants presents every year. If anything, they should give presents to their mothers, who come close to death."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
23. Collective Amnesia
By: Koleka Putuma
4.46
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This highly-anticipated debut collection from one of the country's most acclaimed young voices mark… read more
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24. These Are Not Gentle People
By: Andrew Harding
4.13
Format: 304 pages, ebook
At dusk, on a warm evening in 2016, a group of forty men gathered in the corner of a dusty field on… read more
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25. An Unusual Grief
By: Yewande Omotoso
3.76
Format: 240 pages, None
How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead? This is the question which takes a mother… read more
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26. Land Matters: South Africa's Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead
By: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
4.02
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In Land Matters, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles the past, present, and future of the land question in … read more
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27. The New Apartheid
By: Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
3.97
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
South Africa’s story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but while formal apartheid wa… read more
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28. Democracy and Delusion: 10 Myths in South African Politics
By: Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
3.79
Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition
South African politics is riddled with delusions. Many common political arguments come pre-packaged… read more
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29. The Lie of 1652: A decolonised history of land
By: Patric Tariq Mellet
3.95
Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition
In this radical critique of established pre-colonial and colonial history, Mellet centres land disp… read more
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"The year 1652 has been presented as the genesis of social history in South Africa, and of human advancement and civilization of Africans. Our history was relegated to the realm of the natural history…"-Patric Tariq Mellet, The Lie of 1652: A decolonised history of land
30. Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park (New African Histories)
By: Jacob S. T. Dlamini
4.00
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of t… read more
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