Jacana Media Catalogue Politics, History, Current Affairs and Political Biography Catalogue 2001–2011 POLITICS, HISTORY, CURRENT AFFAIRS AND POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY 1 2 JACANA CATALOGUE 2001–2011 UN Peacekeeping in Africa From the Suez Crisis to the Sudan Conflicts ADEKEYE ADEBAJO Nearly half of all UN peacekeeping missions in the post–Cold War era have been in Africa, and the continent currently hosts the greatest number (and also the largest) of such missions in the world. Uniquely assessing five decades of UN peacekeeping in Africa, Adekeye Adebajo focuses on a series of questions. 978-1-920196-29-5 | Paperback | African Rights | 210x148mm | 288pp | 2011 Season of Rains Africa in the World STEPHEN ELLIS Season of Rains explains how one billion Africans are changing their continent and changing the world. Stephen Ellis dissects how the postcolonial legacy has been overcome, how Africans are seizing the commercial and political initiative, and why this matters. 978-1-4314-0079-9 | Paperback | Southern African Rights (from Hurst & Co. UK) 229x140mm | 228pp | 2011 When a state Turns on its Citizens 60 Years of Institutionalised Violence in Zimbabwe LLOYD SACHIKONYE Lloyd Sachikonye traces the roots of Zimbabwe’s contemporary violence to the actions of the Rhodesian armed forces, and the inter-party conflicts that occurred during the liberation war. His focus, however, is the period since 2000. 978-1-4314-0111-6 | Paperback | Southern African Rights | 210x148mm | 144pp | 2011 POLITICS, HISTORY, CURRENT AFFAIRS AND POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY 3 Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Myths and Realities IAN SCOONES, NELSON MARONGWE, BLASIO MAVEDZENGE, JACOB MAHENEHENE, FELIX MURIMBARIMBA, CHRISPEN SUKUME Ten years after the Zimbabwean land invasions of 2000, Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: Myths and Realities by Ian Scoones and colleagues, provides the first full account of the actual consequences of these dramatic events. 978-1-77009-985-2 | Paperback | Southern African Rights (from Boydell & Brewer) 216x138mm | 304pp | 2011 Zimbabwe in Transition A View from Within TIM MURITHI AND AQUILINA MAWAZDA (EDITORS) Zimbabwe’s transition to democracy in the post-independence era has been a very difficult one. To date, there have been a number of sustained efforts by various local, regional and international actors to move Zimbabwe towards democracy as well as attempts to find a lasting solution to the political and economic crises that seriously affected the country’s progress from the late 1990s. 978-1-920196-35-6 | Trade Paperback | World Rights | 235x155mm | 324pp | 2011 Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa SUSAN WILLIAMS Susan Williams has written a shocking exposé of the true story behind the death of the celebrated UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Hammarskjöld’s death. His death and that of his UN team in a plane crash in central Africa in 1961 is one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance. 978-1-4314-0298-4 | Paperback | Southern African Rights (from Hurst & Co. UK) 216x138mm | 368pp | 2011 4 JACANA CATALOGUE 2001–2011 A History of Namibia From the Beginning to 1990 MARION WALLACE WITH JOHN KINAHAN In 1990 Namibia gained its independence after a decades-long struggle against South African rule - and, before that, against German colonialism. This book, the first new scholarly general history of Namibia in two decades, provides a fresh synthesis of these events, and of the much longer pre-colonial period. 978-1-77009-887-9 | Paperback | Southern African Rights (from Hurst & Co. UK) 216x138mm | 476pp | 2011 Bush War The Road to Cuito Cuanavale – Soviet Soldier’s Accounts of the Angolan War EDITED BY GENNADY SHUBIN & ANDREI TOKAREV In 1990 Namibia gained its independence after a decades-long struggle against South African rule - and, before that, against German colonialism. This book, the first new scholarly general history of Namibia in two decades, provides a fresh synthesis of these events, and of the much longer pre-colonial period. 978-1-77009-887-9 | Paperback | Southern African Rights (from Hurst & Co. UK) 216x138mm | 476pp | 2011 African Solutions Best Practices from the African Peer Review Mechanism TŠOEU PETLANE AND STEVEN GRUZD (EDITORS) This volume is a result of research into the policies, programmes and experiences identified as best practices in the Country Review Reports (CRRs) of twelve countries published under the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), from Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. 978-1-920196-32-5 | Trade Paperback | World Rights | 235x155mm | 160pp | 2011 POLITICS, HISTORY, CURRENT AFFAIRS AND POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY 5 Hope, Pain and Patience The Lives of Women in South Sudan FRIEDERIKE BUBENZER AND ORLY STERN (EDITORS) As in many post-conflict countries, the roles played by women during Sudan’s long-lasting liberation struggle continue to go unrecognised. Thousands of women joined the southern liberation struggle in response to a political situation that affected whole communities. 978-1-920196-36-3 | Trade Paperback | World Rights | 235x155mm | 292pp | 2011 Cape Town betweem East and West Social Identities in a Dutch Colonial Town NIGEL WORDEN (EDITOR) This is the first single-volume social history of eighteenth- century Dutch Cape Town. The product of a major seven-year research project involving leading South African and international historians, it looks at the port settlement in all the complexity of its social interactions. 978-1-4314-0292-2 | Trade Paperback | Southern African Rights | 235x155mm | 292pp | 2011 San Rock Art Jacana Pocket History and Biography Series J.D. LEWIS-WILLIAMS San rock paintings are scattered over the entire area of southern Africa and present us with one of the greatest cultural treasures of humankind. It is estimated that some 15,000 rock art sites are known and possibly as many await discovery. But how are we to make sense of their images often baffling in their complexity and strangeness? 978-1-77009-963-0 | Paperback | World Rights (excl. USA and UK - Ohio University Press) 180x110mm | 160pp | 2011 6 JACANA CATALOGUE 2001–2011 Shak a Jacana Pocket History and Biography Series DAN WHYLIE We all picture Shaka as a lean, mean, assegai-wielding warrior- king, the military genius who founded the Zulu nation. In fact, we don’t actually know when he was born, what he looked like, or exactly when he died. This biography draws on the last two decades of historical research to reassess the eyewitness accounts and use newly available oral traditions. 978-1-77009-962-3 | Paperback | World Rights (excl. USA and UK - Ohio University Press) 180x110mm | 160pp | 2011 Steve Biko Jacana Pocket History and Biography Series LINDY WILSON Steve Biko is often seen as the charismatic leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, who played a useful stopgap role in South African politics in the late 1960s and 1970s. This biography of Biko shows, on the contrary, just how fundamental he was to the transformation of South Africa in the second half of the 20th century – and just how relevant he remains today. 978-1-77009-963-0 | Paperback | World Rights (excl. USA and UK - Ohio University Press) 180x110mm | 160pp | 2011 Umkhonto weSizwe Jacana Pocket History and Biography Series JANET CHERRY Umkhonto weSizwe was arguably the last of the great liberation movements of the 20th century – but it never got to march triumphant into Pretoria. A small group of revolutionaries committed to the seizure of power, they found their principals engaged in negotiated settlement with the enemy and were disbanded soon after. 978-1-77009-961-6 | Paperback | World Rights (excl. USA and UK - Ohio University Press) 180x110mm | 160pp | 2011 POLITICS, HISTORY, CURRENT AFFAIRS AND POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY 7 Women South Africans of Indian Origin DEVI MOODLEY RAJAB AND RANJITH KALLY 150 years after the arrival of the first Indian indentured labourers to South Africa, our society’s wider history has not escaped the risk of distortions and omissions that come from excluding critical voices and players in our struggle for democracy. The personal narratives in this book take the reader into the heart, home and hopes of women often ignored in public discourse. 978-1-4314-0104-8 | Hardcover | World Rights | 250x230mm | 192pp | 2011 Future Inheritance Building Capacity in Democratic South Africa DANIEL PLAATJIES (EDITOR) Since 1994 the post-apartheid South African state has been under constant pressure to transform the inherited institutional architecture of the apartheid state. Various formations of the state had to be reorganised and restructured at an institutional level to meet the imperatives of the new Constitution and developmental needs of the South African society. 978-1-77009-0101-7 | Trade Paperback | World Rights | 235x155mm | 360pp | 2011 One Law, One Nation The Making of the South African Constitution LAUREN SEGAL AND SHARON CORT One Law, One Nation charts the story of the long fight for constitutional rights in South Africa, and the astonishing obstacles and complexity that lay behind the constitution-making process after 1990. Using hitherto unseen archival, photographic and interview material, the book is a popular account of the birth of what has been heralded as one of the world’s most remarkable constitutions. 978-1-4314-0270-0 | Paperback | World Rights | 300x235mm | 256pp | 2011 8 JACANA CATALOGUE 2001–2011 Rivonia’s Children The Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa GLENN FRANKEL Rivonia’s Children is the harrowing and inspiring account of a number of white Jewish activists who risked their lives to battle apartheid when South Africa plunged into an era of darkness in the 1960s from which it has only recently emerged. 978-1-4314-0220-5 | Trade Paperback | Southern African Rights | 235x155mm | 408pp | 2011 The First President A Life of John L. Dube, Founding President of the ANC HEATHER HUGHES John Dube is a revered and important figure in the history of South Africa.