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Ashraf Kagee’s Song of the Slave Girl reimagines Cape slavery through emotion, love and loss, giving voice to histories erased from official memory

Barbara Boswell’s novel tells the gripping love story of a middle-aged black woman in modern-day South Africa

An edited extract from The Nigerian Mafia Johannesburg by Onyeka Nwelue. It contains scenes that might upset sensitive readers

An edited extract from Revolutionaries’ House, the latest novel from Nthikeng Mohlele

A book by an anthropologist documents Joburg’s bustling Kwa Mai Mai

An edited extract from The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past

An excerpt from the memoir of Gregory Maqoma, multi-award-winning dancer and choreographer

An edited extract from Rory Riordan’s book ‘Apartheid Stalingrad’, in which he explores the struggle in the Eastern Cape in the 1980s

An edited excerpt from Samuel Ramani’s book in which he examines Russia’s policy on the continent in relation to the pandemic

Publishing diverse voices could prove to be a source of domestic and global success for local publishers

Jacana Media was established in 2002. We are the preeminent independent publishing firm in South Africa. We’re devoted to our authors’ imaginations, both in fiction and…

Photographer Daylin Paul, inspired by a former colleague, brings into view coal’s devastation in Mpumalanga

Jacana’s new imprint, Storied, will only publish African fiction in English, becoming the first to do so.

A trip to find the best shops for African literature raised the question of what makes a bookstore worth visiting.