The Special Collections Book of the Week this week is:

Bo-Kaap: Inside Cape Town’s Malay Quarter by Robyn Wilkinson and Astrid Kragolsen-Kille.

The Bo-Kaap is a vivid gem on the slopes of Signal Hill above Cape Town’s city centre. Its houses are bright and colourful and most of its people, proud of their rich cultural heritage, follow an Islamic lifestyle. This book offers a glimpse of this tight-knit community. Interviews with residents are interspersed with historical information. Lavishly illustrated recipes allow the reader to make “Cape Malay” dishes in their own homes. Some of the traditional ways of the Bo-Kaap’s residents are under threat from gentrification as investors move in and property prices increase. Through the pages of this book, the authors have captured the essence of this beautiful and historical area before it changes.

Catalogue Access: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/85316103

This book is available at Special Collections, housed on level 5 of the Merensky 2 Library, and is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

The Special Collections unit of the Department of Library Services plays a stewardship role in the acquisition and preservation of the Library's rare and valuable information resources, making them accessible to students, staff and researchers, as well as safeguarding them for future generations.