Fashioning Modern Africanism

Jacana Media is delighted to announce the publication of a ground breaking South African work by Welcome Mandla Lishivha.  ‘BOY ON THE RUN IS TOUGH AND FRAGILE, TRAGIC AND RESILIENT, AND UTTERLY COMPELLING. WELCOME LISHIVHA HAS BROKEN NEW GROUND IN SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE, IN THE VOICE HE FINDS – AND THE STORIES HE TELLS – ABOUT GROWING UP POOR, AND QUEER, AND LOVED, IN A SOUTH AFRICAN TOWNSHIP. IT IS DESTINED TO BE A CLASSIC.’ – MARK GEVISSER Living in Soshanguve as a young boy with an adored and adoring mum, Welcome’s life almost stops when his mum is murdered by her new boyfriend. The upturned chair, his mum’s lifeless face, the blood on the floor, the glasses with the gold detail that Welcome had taken from a precious cupboard, the boyfriend’s body; it was a tableau that was impossible to unsee. But this is only the beginning of a journey which takes Lishivha through school and university, with the help of his remaining family, and allows him to explore South Africa.  Through stud

Sarah Bullen is an author, storyteller and writing coach with a unique brand of humour and heart. She is a former journalist and magazine editor. Her books include Hey Baby! The Hip New Mom's Guide That's All About You and Write your Book in 100 Days! Stop Mucking About & Just Write. In this new installment, Journalist Sarah Bullen and her filmmaker husband Llewellyn seemed like a golden couple, with wildly successful careers. Then Llewellyn realises that what he'd thought were entranced moments were in fact symptoms of a brain tumour. He pursues a shamanic path to fight the cancer and the couple are catapulted into a strange, magical world of ritual and ceremony. Alongside hospitals, surgery and treatments comes another wilder journey of spiritual searching. Then Sarah too falls ill. While in a four-week coma, Sarah travels through near-death and into other realms and worlds. She comes back with a message and a spark to follow which becomes a roadmap to allow her to wr

Compiled from the best of the two hit e-books  Lockdown  and  Lockdown   Extended,  that Melinda Ferguson launched, back to back during the first four weeks of lockdown, as well as including new essays by the likes of New Frame's Richard Pithouse, Kharnita Mohamed and Carsten Rasch, the work brilliantly tries to make sense of a world held hostage by a virus.  Sentenced to Lockdown, regarded as "non-essential", a group of 40 South African writers get together in a virtual Corona Collective, to pen  The Lockdown Collection.  This historical gem showcases a list of South Africa's most celebrated writers, disruptors and thinkers, including: Sisonke Msimang ( Always Another Country ), Fred Khumalo ( Bitches Brew ), multi-disciplinary poet, Lebo Mashile and Pumla Dineo Gqola ( Rape A South African Nightmare ). There's the comic genius of Ben Trovato ( Durban Poison)  and  Everyday Zulu  Melusi Tshabalala, while the likes of  Khaya Dlanga, Dudu Busani-Dube, Rahla Xenopou