MY READING LIST
These are the books that continue to challenge and refine the way I see the world. They move across eras and continents, offering insight into power, purpose, and the complex forces that shape human progress. Together, they trace the intellectual path that informs both my study and my work.
Economics and Global Development
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Africonomics — Bronwen Everill
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Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing — Moeletsi Mbeki
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A Manifesto for Social Change: How to Save South Africa — Moeletsi & Nobantu Mbeki
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Africonomics — Bronwen Everill
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The Upside of Down: How Chaos and Uncertainty Breed Opportunity in South Africa — Bruce Whitfield
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The New China Playbook — Keyu Jin
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Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future — Dang Wang
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Why Nations Fail — Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
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Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism — Kwame Nkrumah
Foundations of Power and Politics
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The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
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1984 — George Orwell
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order — Samuel P. Huntington
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The Once and Future World Order — Amitav Acharya
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Constructing Global Order: Agency and Change in World Politics — Amitav Acharya
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The Making of Global International Relations — Amitav Acharya & Barry Buzan
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Citizens and Subjects: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism — Mahmood Mamdani
African Thought, Liberation, and Post-Colonial Inquiry
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Cry, the Beloved Country — Alan Paton
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I Write What I Like — Steve Biko
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For My Country — Themba Maseko
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A Manifesto for Social Change — Moeletsi & Nobantu Mbeki
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On the Postcolony — Achille Mbembe
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Critique of Black Reason — Achille Mbembe
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Brutalism — Achille Mbembe
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Necropolitics — Achille Mbembe
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Democracy and Delusion: 10 Myths in South African Politics — Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
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The New Apartheid — Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
Philosophy, Ethics, and Human Understanding
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Meditations on First Philosophy — René Descartes
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Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
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Apology — Plato (on Socrates)
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Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
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Gravity and Grace — Simone Weil
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Inferno — Dante Alighieri
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The Odyssey — Homer
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The Song of Achilles — Madeline Miller
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Path of Blood — Becker
Literature and Society
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Eat Freedom — John Briley
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The Making of South Africa — M. S. Geen
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Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare
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Macbeth — William Shakespeare
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King Lear — William Shakespeare