Human Rights
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I Am Malala - How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World R160.00
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, 9 October 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price when she was shot in the head at point-blank range. Malala Yousafzai’s extraordinary journey has taken her from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations. She has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and is the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. I Am Malala will make you believe in the power of one person’s voice to inspire change in the world. ***** ‘Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world’ JK Rowling ‘Moving and illuminating’ Observer ‘Inspirational and powerful’ Grazia ‘Her story is astonishing’ Spectator
Author(s): Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
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Reflecting Rogue: Inside the Mind of a Feminist R200.00
Reflecting Rogue is a mesmerizing collection of experimental autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and South African culture.
In her most personal book to date, written from a classic Gqola anti racist, feminist perspective, Reflecting Rogue delivers fourteen essays on incisive brain food, deliciously accessible to a general critical readership, without sacrificing intellectual rigour.Author: Pumla Dineo Gqola
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Stay With Me R160.00
“There are things even love can’t do… If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when it’s in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn’t mean it’s not love…”
Author: Ayobami Adebayo
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The Bus People R220.00
This book is about the lived experiences of the bus commuters. The Bus People are the Black-working class who primarily reside in informal settlements. The book covers the impact of taxi violence on the bus people, the targeting of bus drivers when there are conflicts about public transport routes, the struggles of domestic workers, #FeesMustFall, access to water and dignified sanitation, policing, absent fathers and family planning.
Author(s): Chumile Sali
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The Girl Without A Sound R120.00
As an act of restoring power and agency to young black girls in South Africa, this is a story about a voiceless girl of colour in search of a sound of her own. It provides a catalyst to remind young Readers of the power of the sounds trapped inside them.
A magical story about a little girl who finds her voice after a long period of silence
Author: Buhle Ngaba
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Twelve Years a Slave R160.00
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve years a slave is a harrowing memoir about on of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, DC., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
After his rescue, Northup published the exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave. In 2013, Twelve years a slave was adapted for film by Director Steve McQueen and earned three academy awards, including the best picture.Author: Solomon Northup
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We Are No Longer at Ease R200.00
We are no longer at ease is a collection of personal articles, essays, speeches and poetry mainly from voices of young people who were part of the student led protest movement known as #FeesMustFall, which began in 2015. It tells the journey of the youth who participated in a movement that redefined politics in post apartheid South Africa and is evidence of a ‘born free’ generation telling their own story and leading the discourse and action in transforming South Africa.
Young people are not at ease. They are refusing to coexist with coloniality, sexism, democratic indifference and inequality. We need to acknowledge and take heed to their calls. This collection includes works by former student leaders turned researchers such as David Maimela and Asanda Luwaca, student newspaper journalists who covered the protests, like Natasha Ndlebe and Nkateko Mabasa; public intellectuals whose aim was to inform broader society of the key aspects of the movement, like Sisonke Msimang lectures who assisted the students to articulate and find clarity in voicing their ideas such as Sabelo J Ndlovu Gatsheni and most importantly the foot soldiers on the ground who led the students through the police brutality of rubber bullets and pepper spray, like Mcebo Dlamini, Ntokozo Qwabe and Sarah Mokweba.Authors: Wandile Ngcaweni & Busani Ngcaweni
