Jacana Media
Jacana Media is an African publisher specialising in a range of different books - fiction, non-fiction, travel, natural history, current affairs, maps, cookbooks, lifestyle, art and educational and custom publishing.
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Marah Louw bares her soul in new YouTube series: BlackBird Books Chat Episode 01
BlackBird Books has launched a series of YouTube chats with your favourite authors!
‘I want to go back to Rwanda but I don’t want to go back to be Rwandan’ – Read an excerpt from The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije
BlackBird Books has shared an excerpt from The Eternal Audience of One, the debut novel by Rwandan-born Namibian writer Rémy Ngamije!
‘Just as Mama wanted, my belly is hidden.’ Read an excerpt from Keletso Mopai’s debut short story collection, If You Keep Digging
BlackBird Books has shared an excerpt from If You Keep Digging, the debut short story collection by Keletso Mopai!
BlackBird Books reveals exciting new look with two novels by debut authors – The Eternal Audience of One and If You Keep Digging
BlackBird Books has revealed the covers for two new books – featuring the publisher’s bold new look!
‘We are activists when we write’ – Malebo Sephodi talks about winning the First Time Published Author SALA Award for her book Miss Behave
Malebo Sephodi says she was ‘blown away’ by her South African Literary Award.
These Are the Things That Sit With Us – Stories from ordinary South Africans, each published in isiXhosa, Afrikaans and English
In publishing each story in isiXhosa, Afrikaans and English, we hope that the book will stimulate conversation among South Africans across languages.
Undercover with Mandela’s Spies – the never-before-told story of being inside the ANC’s top secret unit that infiltrated the Third Force
Bradley Steyn’s astonishing true-life thriller reveals for the first time some of the dirty secrets of a dirty war within the borders of South Africa, during the dying days of apartheid.
Mbongiseni Buthelezi discusses the new book Traditional Leaders in a Democracy: Resources, Respect and Resistance
Mbongiseni Buthelezi sat down with Polity SA to discuss his new book Traditional Leaders in a Democracy: Resources, Respect and Resistance.
Join Samantha Smirin, author of the mesmerising Life Interrupted, for an intimate discussion on Bipolar (30 April)
Author Samantha Smirin will be at Exclusive Books Sandton for an intimate discussion around mental illness and her new memoir Life Interrupted.
Life Interrupted – Samantha Smirin’s deeply compelling memoir of living with bipolar
Life Interrupted is a deeply compelling memoir that brilliantly humanises the sufferer beyond the label.
Don’t miss the launch of Samantha Smirin’s mesmerising memoir Life Interrupted at Love Books (2 May)
MFBooks Joburg and Love Books invite you to the launch of Life Interrupted, Samantha Smirin’s lucid and devastating memoir about living with bipolar.
Join Eva Mazza at Exclusive Books Somerset Mall for the launch of Sex, Lies and Stellenbosch
MFBooks Joburg and Eva Mazza invite you to the launch of the sizzling Sex, Lies and Stellenbosch, a novel that peeks into the lives of the privileged men and women of the winelands.
‘How has this story never been told?’ Watch an interview with the authors of Broke and Broken: The Shameful Legacy of Gold Mining in South Africa
Broke and Broken: The Shameful Legacy of Gold Mining in South Africa, by Lucas Ledwaba and Leon Sadiki, explores one of southern Africa’s greatest tragedies.
New, fully revised and extended edition of Cyril Ramaphosa: The Road to Presidential Power by Anthony Butler
A revised and extended edition of Cyril Ramaphosa: The Road to Presidential Power by Anthony Butler is out soon from Jacana Media.
Find out more about Mhudi, the first novel by a black South African, in an excerpt from Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Jacana Media has shared an excerpt from Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876–1932 by Brian Willan. This biography celebrates one of …
One woman. One continent. Wander through Africa with Lerato Mogoatlhe’s Vagabond
Vagabond is the poetic, raw and honest diary of Lerato Mogoatlhe’s travels through 21 countries in Africa.
Watch an interview with Ijangolet S Ogwang, author of An Image in a Mirror, on BlackBird Books’s new YouTube channel
BlackBird Books has shared a video of author Ijangolet S Ogwang chatting about her debut novel An Image in a Mirror.
Read an excerpt from Arushi Raina’s debut novel, When Morning Comes – a snapshot of South Africa on the eve of the Soweto uprising
Jacana Media has shared an excerpt from Arushi Raina’s debut novel, When Morning Comes.
Gerald Kraak Anthology and Prize shortlist announced, honouring African writing that provokes thought on the topics of gender, social justice and sexuality
The Jacana Literary Foundation, in partnership with the Other Foundation, has announced the judges’ selection for the third Gerald Kraak Anthology. Created …
Vagabond – Lerato Mogoatlhe’s hilarious and honest account of her five years of living as a drifter in Africa
Vagabond: Wandering Through Africa on Faith by Lerato Mogoatlhe is out from BlackBird Books in April 2019!