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NISC publishes non-fiction books which are mostly scholarly in nature. While we have profiles for our books on our site, they are not available for sale directly to the public from NISC. NISC books can be purchased from your local bookshop or via an online bookseller such as takealot.com and loot.co.za. For wholesale orders of most of our books you will need to contact Blue Weaver or the African Books Collective.

A contribution to the South African Materia Medica

A contribution to the South African Materia Medica

African Personhood and Applied Ethics

African Personhood and Applied Ethics

Bettering their foods: Peasant production, nutrition and the state in Malawi, 1859–2005

Bettering their foods: Peasant production, nutrition and the state ...
Bettering their foods: Peasant production, nutrition and the state in Malawi, 1859–2005

Beyond Monuments: The politics and poetics of memory in post-war northern Uganda

Beyond Monuments: The politics and poetics of memory in post-war no...
Beyond Monuments: The politics and poetics of memory in post-war northern Uganda

Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities

Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities

Boxing is no Cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing

Boxing is no Cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson i...
Boxing is no Cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing

Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925

Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a jo...
Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925

Claude E. Ake - the making of an organic intellectual

Claude E. Ake - the making of an organic intellectual

Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa

Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa

Consensus as Democracy in Africa

Consensus as Democracy in Africa

Conversations with Memorable Personalities

Conversations with Memorable Personalities

Doctors for Tomorrow: Family Medicine in South Africa

Doctors for Tomorrow: Family Medicine in South Africa

Ethics: Giving a Damn Making a Difference

Ethics: Giving a Damn Making a Difference

Gender Terrains in African Cinema

Gender Terrains in African Cinema

Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape: South Africa

Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape: South Africa

Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History

Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History

Groupers of the World: A Field and Market Guide

Groupers of the World: A Field and Market Guide

Hollywood and Africa: Recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ Myth, 1908–2020

Hollywood and Africa: Recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ My...
Hollywood and Africa: Recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ Myth, 1908–2020

Indigenous Shona Philosophy: Reconstructive Insights

Indigenous Shona Philosophy: Reconstructive Insights

ISEA 1964-2014: A South African research institute serving people

ISEA 1964-2014: A South African research institute serving people

Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel

Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigeria...
Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel

Levy Patrick Mwanawasa: An Incentive for Posterity

Levy Patrick Mwanawasa: An Incentive for Posterity

Living by Voices we shall Never Hear: Seeing Animals Differently

Living by Voices we shall Never Hear: Seeing Animals Differently

Marrying Accidentally: The story of Hatsuko Takara

Marrying Accidentally: The story of Hatsuko Takara

Men across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and film

Men across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and f...
Men across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and film

Music and urban youth identities: A study of ghetto youth in contemporary culture and politics in Zimbabwe

Music and urban youth identities: A study of ghetto youth in contem...
Music and urban youth identities: A study of ghetto youth in contemporary culture and politics in Zimbabwe

Nation, power and dissidence in third generation Nigerian poetry in English

Nation, power and dissidence in third generation Nigerian poetry in...
Nation, power and dissidence in third generation Nigerian poetry in English

Parading Respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa

Parading Respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the C...
Parading Respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa

Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry since 1947

Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry...
Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry since 1947

Queer Bodies in African Films

Queer Bodies in African Films

Reading the Animal Text in the Landscape of the Damned

Reading the Animal Text in the Landscape of the Damned

Responsible Journalism by Example

Responsible Journalism by Example

South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape

South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape

Swimming on the Edge of Extinction: The Perilous State of the Indigenous Freshwater Fish of the Western Cape

Swimming on the Edge of Extinction: The Perilous State of the Indig...
Swimming on the Edge of Extinction: The Perilous State of the Indigenous Freshwater Fish of the Western Cape

The Anglophone Literary-Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse

The Anglophone Literary-Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenou...
The Anglophone Literary-Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse

The Selfless Constitution: Experimentalism and Flourishing as Foundations of South Africa’s Basic Law

The Selfless Constitution: Experimentalism and Flourishing as Found...
The Selfless Constitution: Experimentalism and Flourishing as Foundations of South Africa’s Basic Law

The Shame of Shame: (in) contemporary South African performance

The Shame of Shame: (in) contemporary South African performance

Treading a Delicate Tightrope: A principal balancing between education and political change during turbulent times

Treading a Delicate Tightrope: A principal balancing between educat...
Treading a Delicate Tightrope: A principal balancing between education and political change during turbulent times

Unshared Identity: Posthumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba community

Unshared Identity: Posthumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba co...
Unshared Identity: Posthumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba community

We Can: Black Politics in Cradock, South Africa 1948-1985

We Can: Black Politics in Cradock, South Africa 1948-1985

What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance

What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative perfo...
What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance

White Narratives: The depiction of post-2000 land invasions in Zimbabwe

White Narratives: The depiction of post-2000 land invasions in Zimb...
White Narratives: The depiction of post-2000 land invasions in Zimbabwe

Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media

Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media

Wrecking Ball: Why permanent technological unemployment, a predictable pandemic and other wicked problems will end South Africa’s experiment in inclusive democracy

Wrecking Ball: Why permanent technological unemployment, a predicta...
Wrecking Ball: Why permanent technological unemployment, a predictable pandemic and other wicked problems will end South Africa’s experiment in inclusive democracy

Yabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy

Yabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy

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