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Young and on the run from Apartheid
Young on the run from Apartheid is a novel. The story takes place between 1985 and 2004. The main character, Sandile, is on a search for his humanity through the backdrop of apartheid, and suddenly has to flee from South Africa to Sweden as a result of his parents’ political activities. In Sweden he finds an open and loving African community, where he must deal with the political issues he has left behind in South Africa. The book takes place in three countries: South Africa, Sweden and Kenya. It is fast paced and is told in the African manner, as if the narrator were sitting at a boma (traditional fireplace) narrating the story.
African Soul Talk
These upbeat discussions between Dumani Mandela and Rabbi Warren Goldstein cover politics, culture, religion, and nation building in South Africa.
I Dream of Kemet
I Dream of Kemet is a novel based on African magic realism from an African perspective. When Chawe leaves his dream job in Sweden to pursue his dreams as an artist in France, little does he know that his ambitions will lead him back to the African continent in search of and discovery of magic. I Dream of Kemet is about the discovery of the hidden aspects of African culture which are often passed down from one generation to the next, through storytelling in the verbal tradition, and thus often get lost in translation. I Dream of Kemet is also a story about the tribulations of man and how, through difficulty, there are often hidden opportunities to discover magic.
A Freedom That Comes From Within
His epiphany was that he could get out before he was released.
“Prison is a metaphor for self-imposed limitations,” Khalil says. He explains, “I’ve known people from the most privileged environments and shared cell space with people who have only ever known hardship and adversity. I’ve come to believe that everyone, regardless of their history or current situation, is in a prison of some sort, a prison of their own making that limits them in some way, whether they’re aware of it or not.”
A Freedom That Comes From Within is a transformative book about finding your own freedom—a freedom that can inspire more conscious, positive choices and establish a strong, quiet center from which to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life. No matter what your life looks like right now or how limited and powerless you may perceive yourself to be, you hold the key to your own freedom!
“This book is a powerful, reflective piece that left me wanting more from Osiris.”
—Dumani Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works covers the life of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, who was a freedom fighter, a political prisoner, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and the first president of a democratic South Africa. This book guides readers in understanding the background to Mandela’s life and the context of his political career, and it emphasizes the perspectives and philosophies that formed Mandela as he grew up in the world of segregationist and apartheid South Africa. Includes a detailed chronology of Mandela’s life, family, and work. The A to Z section includes the major events, places, and people in Mandela’s life. The bibliography includes a list of publications concerning his life and work. The index thoroughly cross-references the chronological and encyclopedic entries.
Conversations With Myself
Conversations With Myself is a moving collection of letters, diary entries and other writing that provides a rare chance to see the other side of Nelson Mandela's life, in his own voice: direct, clear, private. An international bestseller, Conversations With Myself is an intensely personal book that complements his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. In his foreword to Nelson Mandela's book, President Barack Obama writes: 'Conversations With Myself does the world an extraordinary service in giving us [a] picture of Mandela the man.' Conversations With Myself gives readers insight to the darkest hours of Nelson Mandela's twenty-seven years of imprisonment and his troubled dreams in his cell o...
A People on the Boil
Twenty years after it was first published, this edition is being reissued to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the political uprising in South Africa and the ongoing struggle for better education. An updated account by a black newspaper journalist, it reflects on the tumultuous events of 1976 that became a watershed in South African politics and helped to change the course of the country's history. This examination looks both at the background of the uprising and its effects on the people of South Africa.
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
One of NPR's Great Reads of 2018 An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth. Arrested in 1962 as South Africa’s apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, the future leader of South Africa wrote a multitude of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, to his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 25...
Digital-for-Development: Enabling Transformation, Inclusion and Sustainability Through ICTs
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Development Informatics Association Conference, IDIA 2022, held in Mbombela, South Africa, in November 2022. The 20 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theories and practices in digital-for-development ecosystems; emerging technologies for transformation, inclusion and sustainable development; privacy and security in digital-for-development ecosystems; human-computer interaction (HCI) for digital inclusion; artificial intelligence (AI) for good.
Prison Letters
“Heartbreaking and inspiring,” Nelson Mandela’s Prison Letters reveals his evolution “into one of the great moral heroes of our time” (New York Times). First published to mark the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela sparked celebrations around the globe for one of the “greatest warriors of all time” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Featuring 94 letters selected from that landmark collection, as well as six new letters that have never been published, this historic paperback provides an essential political history of the late twentieth century and illustrates how Mandela maintained his inner spirit while imprisoned. Whether they’re longing love l...
