 | Trains to Taung by Paul Hanmer
South African jazz piano inspired by the Cradle of Humanity.
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 | The Lost World of the Kalahari by Laurens van der Post
Buy new: $14.53 / Used from: $3.82 Into the Cradle, reflected in the lives of a dying race.
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 | Indaba My Children: African Folktales
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $6.98 Seer and traditional healer shares the oral history of Southern Africa.
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 | Middlepost by Anthony Sher
Buy used from: $2.36 The Jewish experience through the eyes of an itinerant.
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 | Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.03 About a magistrate on the frontier and beyond.
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 | The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham
Buy used from: $2.50 Empire-lust, gold and all the trouble it caused.
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 | When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur A. Smith
Buy used from: $10.76 Escapism: Macho, colonial, nostalgia from the African king of pulp.
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 | Holism and Evolution: The original source of the holistic approach to life by Jan Christiaan Smuts
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $16.74 Boer rebel, field marshall, statesman, and dreamer emerges as systems thinker.
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 | Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Buy used from: $0.92 The great South African novel? Also see the film. Despite the terrible accents of some co-stars the James Earl Jones performance is moving, and Enya's "Exile" inspiring.
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 | The Power of One: A Novel by Bryce Courtenay
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.95 Sweet coming of age tale, which you may need to remember when you get to Antjie Krog.
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 | A World of Strangers by Nadine Gordimer
Buy used from: $0.01 Nadine Gordimer: Nobel prize for literature. A World of Strangers explains why.
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 | The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist by Breyten Breytenbach
Buy used from: $17.73 Defiant autobiographical prison tale by a contrarian Afrikaner poet and intellectual.
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 | Statements by Athol Fugard
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.62 A brave playwright who looked into the soul of apartheid.
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 | Best of Live: At the Nelson Mandela Theatre by Johnny Clegg
Buy new: $38.99 / Used from: $9.79 From the man known as "le Zulu blanc". Must hear: Crossing, Impi, Asimbonanga.
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 | My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience by Rian Malan
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.71 A son of Afrikanerdom on realization, contrition and hope.
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 | Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
Buy new: $10.52 / Used from: $5.49 The story of the great man.
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 | Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa by Antjie Krog
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.79 The story of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Keep your anti-depressants handy.
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 | No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.70 The peace laureate with a sincere and refreshing reminder of redemption and salvation.
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 | The Very Best of Abdullah Ibrahim by Abdullah Ibrahim
Buy used from: $3.99 The essential jazz pianist from the beautiful Cape of Storms, soulful, effervescent and soothing.
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