About Amava Heritage Publishing

Amava Heritage Publishing (PTY) LTD operates in the cultural, traditional and royal authority sphere. It is all about reclaiming our heritage as black people by researching, packaging, debating and publishing our stories. Stories that tell of our economy, our justice system, our governance structures and our heroes. Stories that prove there was life before the colonial invasion, before we turned slaves, before we lost our self-worth, before we settled to be employees of our white masters, before we lost the land, before we sold our souls for a plate of food. We want our children to be able to use this knowledge to form a context of why things are like this today and what to fix in order to create a better tomorrow

What Amava Heritage Publishing Does

Amava Heritage Publishing (PTY) LTD operates in two professional spheres – Publishing and Communication Consultancy Services.

The Publishing arm is into the cultural, traditional and royal authority sphere. It is all about reclaiming our heritage as black people by researching, packaging, debating and publishing our life stories. Stories that tell of our economy, our justice system, our governance structures and our heroes. Stories that prove there was life before the colonial invasion, before we were forcibly turned slaves, before we lost our self-worth, before we were made second class citizens…

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Maqoma: The Legend of a Great Xhosa Warrior by Prof. Timothy Stapleton is a book, a biography of Nkosi Maqoma of the Rharhabe dynasty; King Ngqika’s first born son of amaXhosa published by Amava Heritage Publishing in 2016. Maqoma a man who spent 55 years of his life in physical combat resisting British colonialism in […]

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If we stand tall it is because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors.

— African Proverb