South Africa: Michael Mosoeu Moerane Was a Pioneering Composer in South Africa. a New Book Is Restoring His Place in History
[The Conversation Africa] Composer and educator Michael Mosoeu Moerane (1904-1980) is probably best known for a few evergreen choral works, including Della and Sylvia, still sung by choirs across South Africa today.
Africa: In the Image of Europe’s Imagining – How Berlin Remade Africa
[African Arguments] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debat…
South Africa: South African Book At Centre of Raid On Jerusalem Bookshop
[GroundUp] Educational Bookshop, opened in 1984, is the best-known bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem
Nigeria: Africans Must Write More Biographies of Leaders – Pawa Secretary-General Okediran
[Vanguard] Dr. Wale Okediran, a Nigerian author and Secretary-General of the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA), has called for greater efforts to document the lives of African leaders and achievers.
Africa: New Book On African Inequalities Challenges Policy Makers
[UCT] Scholars from an African research centre hosted by the University of Cape Town (UCT) are key contributors to a new book that aims to shape global discussions and discourses on Africa’s inequality challenges. This multi-institution collaborative w…
Nigeria: Femi Pedro At 70 – Between Fate and Diligence
[This Day] According to Edward Morgan Forster, English novelist, and short story writer, “failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in th…
Zimbabwe: Stoevring’s New Book Promotes Cultural Heritage
[The Herald] Historian, academic, and researcher Joern Stoevring has published an insightful book exploring the San cave paintings’ traditions, particularly focusing on the relationship between humans and animals.
Liberia: The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848-2010 State of the Nation Addresses to the National Legislature – From Joseph Jenkins Roberts to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
[Liberian Observer] Author: D. Elwood Dunn
Africa: Ankara Declaration – a Positive Development Imbued With Regional Risks
[African Arguments] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debat…
South Africa: Can Old Racists Change? Book Tracks Seven Years in a South African Nursing Home
[The Conversation Africa] God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End is a beautifully written and intimate book about the characters in an old age home in South Africa. To write it, anthropologist Casey Golomski spent seven years travelling bet…