Book Review

AllAfrica News: Book Listings and Reviews

• South Africa: Big Pharma, Dirty Lies, Busy Bees and Eco-Activists May Be One of the Most Important SA Books Published in 2020
  [Daily Maverick] David Bristow's latest volume begins with a warning to conspiracy theorists, creationists and climate-change denialists who learn all they know from TV and social media: This is not for you.
  
  
• Eritrea: Book Review and Conversation With Amanuel Biedemariam
  [Shabait] Recently I read the book, The History of the USA in Eritrea: From Franklin D. Roosevelt To Barack Obama and How Donald Trump Changed The Course Of History, written by Amanuel Biedemariam, an Eritrean-American author. Published in August 2020, the book provides a broad overview of the US' relationship with Eritrea over the decades. Here, I offer a brief review of the book and then a short summary of my recent conversation with the author.
  
  
• South Africa: Book Review | Mermaid Fillet Is Rooted in Memory
  [New Frame] Mia Arderne has entrenched her debut novel in the northern Cape Town suburbs of her youth through its language, characters and their experiences, offering acute observations of contemporary South Africa.
  
  
• South Africa: New Books | Archie Mafeje's Political Thought
  [New Frame] Bongani Nyoka grapples with the renowned South African scholar's engagement with African archives in an effort to begin the process of decolonising knowledge.
  
  
• South Africa: New Books | Revolution At Point Zero
  [New Frame] Silvia Federici explores how in fighting for their rights, migrant domestic workers circulate practices that influence feminist politics and foster cosmopolitanism.
  
  
• South Africa: Mermaid Fillet - a Love Letter to Cape Town, Women and Jordan Takkies
  [Daily Maverick] Few books open with a line that says 'don't be taken for a p***s. This is particularly hard to remember when it's year end'. From the first page, 'Mermaid Fillet' draws you into its pages with its sharp writing about women, Cape Town and feminism.
  
  
• South Africa: Book Review | the Vanishing Half
  [New Frame] Brit Bennett's latest novel explores the lives of two Black women who go to great lengths to deny their roots and legacy, and the harm this causes to themselves and those around them.
  
  
• South Africa: New Books | Seeking Asylum in Joburg
  [New Frame] In their essay in Anxious Joburg, a collection edited by Cobus van Staden and Nicky Falkof, B Camminga considers what it means to find refuge as a transgender person in the city.