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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Join BlackBird Books and Abantu Book Festival for sundowners at the Soweto Hotel

BlackBird Books, Abantu Book Festival and The Soweto Hotel invite you to sundowners.

Don’t miss the launch of Set a Table, the new cookbook by Karen Dudley, in Cape Town (2 Dec)

Jacana Media and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Set a Table by Karen Dudley. 

The First Safari – searching for Francois Levaillant, the first and greatest South African birder

The First Safari: Searching for François Levaillant by Ian Glenn, out now from Jacana Media!

New book alert! We Are No Longer at Ease: The Struggle for #FeesMustFall, edited by Wandile Ngcaweni and Busani Ngcaweni

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.

South African recipes with a Suzelle DIY twist – The Suzelle recipe book is here!

Suzelle DIY has shared an exclusive peek into her new recipe book, Recipes!

Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of Southern African Muckraking, edited by Anton Harber (26 Nov)

Jacana Media and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Southern African Muckraking: 150 Years Of Investigative Journalism Which Has Shaped The Region, edited by Anton Harber.

‘Probably one of the most important books published this year’ – Eusebius McKaiser on The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas

Eusebius McKaiser chatted to Richard Pithouse about The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas calling it ‘probably one of the most important books published this year in our country’.

Get your copy of Set a Table signed by Karen Dudley at Bargain Books in Cape Town (24 Nov)

Jacana Media and Bargain Books invite you to a book signing of Set a Table by Karen Dudley.

Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of Terry Kurgan’s new book Everyone is Present (22 Nov)

Fourthwall Books and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Everyone is Present: Essays on Photography, Memory and Family by Terry Kurgan.

A hilarious compendium of iconic South Africanness – Hagen Engler’s new book Black Twitter, Blitz and a Boerie as Long as Your Leg

As they tend to say on Idols shortly before eviscerating some poor aspiring singer’s performance, this comes from a place of love.

Don’t miss Vanessa Govender in Chatsworth discussing her book Beaten but not Broken and 16 Days of Activism

Vanessa Govender will be in Chatsworth, Durban to chat about her new book Beaten but not Broken, and commemorate the annual 16 Days of Activism campaign.

Career opportunities: Jacana Media is hiring! (Marketing Manager, Marketing Administrator, Digital Coordinator)

Jacana Media’s frenetic marketing department has a few vacancies for energetic, proactive, fast-thinking people.

A love for books, great ideas, excellent communication and loads of energy are essential.

Every dish has a story and every chef has a journey – Lesego Semenya offers township cuisine with a twist in his debut cookbook Dijo

Soweto-born chef Lesego Semenya, well known as LesDaChef, shares his journey from the corporate world to being a chef, and offers township cuisine with a twist in his debut cookbook Dijo: My Food, My Journey.

‘Bitcoin has the potential to change the world’ – Mpho Dagada chats about his book Mr Bitcoin: How I Became a Millionaire at 21

‘The world needs to look up and notice that something that has the potential to change the world has risen among us. And that being Bitcoin.’

Join Fourthwall Books for the launch of Terry Kurgan’s Everyone is Present at Love Books

Fourthwall Books and Love Books invite you to the launch of Everyone is Present: Essays on Photography, Memory and Family by Terry Kurgan.

Celebrating the rich and untold history of investigative journalism – Southern African Muckraking, edited by Anton Harber

Southern African Muckraking: 150 Years of Investigative Journalism which has Shaped the Region celebrates the rich and untold history of investigative journalism in southern Africa and the crucial role it has played in holding power to account over the last 150 years.

Get your copy of Zapiro’s new book Let the Sunshine In signed in Joburg and Midrand!

When all around is crumbling, when fake news and zipped lips conceal the truth, Zapiro comes to the rescue. With the dissecting eye of a surgeon, the rapier-like point of his pen exposes flimflam and reveals with a single line what lies behind the action.

Don’t miss the launch of Set a Table by Karen Dudley at The Book Lounge (20 Nov)

Set a Table is Karen’s latest offering, following in the footsteps of her groundbreaking and much-loved Week in the Kitchen books.

The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas by Harris Dousemetzis – a complete about turn on one of the apartheid government’s greatest cover-ups

The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas by Harris Dousemetzis is out now from Jacana Media.