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Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters: Lusabilo, a determined waste picker; Kapula, a burned-out brothel worker; Moonga, a former rock crusher turned beggar; and Timo, an ambitious gang leader. These children navigate the violent and poverty-stricken underworld of Lusaka, one of Africa’s fastest growing cities.

Black Lion begins in rural South Africa where a deeply traumatic childhood experience - a cousin being dragged away by a crocodile - should have turned him against the surrounding wilderness. Instead, he was irresistibly drawn to it. As a volunteer at Imfolozi Nature Reserve, close encounters with animals taught him to 'see' with his heart and thus began a spiritual awakening. Drawing from his Zulu culture and a yearning to better understand human's relationship to nature, Sicelo has forged a new path to nature.

In Vessels of Glory, Vezi makes a formidable and persuasive case for following Christ in the 21st century. Vezi employs riveting personal anecdotes, experiences, metaphors, and observable phenomena to translate what it means to follow Christ in our increasingly complex and divided ego-driven world. Ultimately, Vezi vividly demonstrates how followers of Christ have the mandate and can grow their effectiveness in manifesting the heart of God for humanity, especially in the face of evils confronting humankind, such as poverty, corruption, and socio-economic injustices.

In the stillness of the night, Catherine is jolted awake by an unsettling dream, her daughter Ava sharing in this nocturnal unease. The clock chimes 3:33. After tossing and turning she finally falls back to sleep. Morning arrives, revealing a disrupted routine as Ava's father drops the bombshell of an impending move, injecting chaos into their lives. Simultaneously, news of Catherine's estranged father's demise emerges, a haunting echo from a past she desperately tried to erase.

From the searing heat of the desert to the vastness of the savannah, The Onyx Crown tells the story of Jorann, Gesi, and Sania, three children who grow up in a pre-medieval era of wars and successions, not 15 years after the greatest king in the history of the continent has been deposed and assassinated. When the legendary warrior of Numerian history, K’Nan of Loffri is hired to guide a hunting expedition he is astonished to discover that one of the hunter’s slaves, Jorann, a boy of 13, bears the legendary mark of the Onyx Crown.

In 2019, South Africa celebrates 25 years of democracy and the freedom that turned the country from a political pariah to one warmly embraced by the world. Nowhere was the welcome more visible, or more emotional, than in sport. Vuvuzela Dawn tells the stories of that return. From Bafana Bafana’s Africa Cup of Nations win to the fabled '438' Proteas game, we go behind the scenes of the great moments and record-breaking triumphs from 1994 to the present.