77pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Jacana, Johannesburg, 2025

ISBN: 9781431435401

Text in isiXhosa. Also available in English, isiZulu, Sepedi and Afrikaans.

A history of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Suitable for teens and young adults, and for use in schools.

Dr Xolisa Guzula is a senior lecturer in Applied Language and Literacy Studies at the University of Cape Town. She is one of the founders of a network of reading clubs, has written several children’s books, and co-authored the Imbokodo: Women who shape us series with Athambile Masola. She has also translated children’s books from English to isiXhosa, and won an IBBY/Exclusive Books Award for best translation of The Elders at the Door to Iinkonde eMnyango by Shayle and Maryanne Bester. She is a member of Bua-lit Language and Literacy Collective and is Chair of the Western Cape Committee of the Literacy Association of South Africa.

Dr Athambile Masola is a lecturer in the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town. She has published a collection of poems in isiXhosa titled Ilifa, which won the 2022 Humanities and Social Science Award. She is the co-author of the children’s history book series, Imbokodo: Women who shape us, with Xolisa Guzula. Her latest book, in collaboration with Makhosazana Xaba, is A Stranger at Home, a collection of Noni Jabavu’s columns.

UQHEKEZO LOBUNYE, ibali localucalulo ngokobuhlanga

: Guzula (X.) & Masola (A.) text & Pulles (E.) comics

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