Thabo Mbeki. A Jacana pocket biography.

By (author): Adekeye Adebajo. Part of Jacana's Pocket Biography series, Adekeye Adebajo's account of Thabo Mbeki — South Africa's deputy president (1994–1999) and president (1999–2008) — centres on Mbeki's African Renaissance vision: a push to adapt democracy to African contexts, promote self-determination and secure debt relief and fairer trade terms for the continent. The book weighs this intellectual ambition against its patchy implementation, including the 2001 NEPAD initiative and the 2002 founding of the African Union, and the gap between Mbeki's rhetoric and South Africa's own lingering divisions.