Tracey Mcdonald Publishers imprint: 26 books
Glory Game
The Joost van der Westhuizen Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In 2011 the world was shocked when the news broke that Joost van der Westhuizen, known for years as the golden boy of South African rugby and a former Springbok captain, had been diagnosed with motor neuron disease (MND). This rare condition attacks the central nervous system, causing progressive...
Kasinomics
African Informal Economies and the People Who Inhabit Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Kasinomi is a book as eclectic, mysterious and colourful as the places and people it explores. eKasi, the lokasie, the South African township, once an apartheid ghetto, is today an amazingly transformed place. This township today is an eclectic mix of mansions, shacks, spaza shops, rocking taverns,...
The Villager
How Africans Consume Brands
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
The Villager is essential reading for brand owners wishing to conquer new markets.
When Feyi Olubodun, CEO of one of West Africa’s leading creative agencies, witnessed one too many cases of brands failing in the African marketplace he began to ask himself questions: Why did brands, both global...
Do. Fail. Learn. Repeat.
The Truth Behind Building Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Are you bored and baffled by spin doctors telling you how to succeed, how to make $1 000 000 or how to build the best business in just 30 days? Everyone claims to have the next best short cut or hack to help you along the path of entrepreneurship. It’s all bullshit.
In his business autobiography...
by Tracy Todd
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Why walk when you can soar... These are the opening words on Tracy Todd's website and they are a powerful affirmation of the person Tracy is today - a sought-after inspirational speaker whose uplifting presentations have inspired and given hope to many people. But it is difficult to imagine what she...
Out of Line
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
"You'll be a dentist," says Dad. "Why?" I ask. "Because you'll be called doctor and you won't be called out at night." "I'm not sticking my hands down anyone's mouth. Yech!" DOV FEDLER was a laatlammetjie, born and bred in Johannesburg in 1940 just as Hitler...
Boredom Slayer
A speaker’s guide to presenting like a pro
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Any fool can put together a presentation; this book exists because so many do.
There’s something sucking the life out of audiences everywhere, transforming them from the very people who can change your business into the disengaged masses. It’s called The Boredom … and your job is to slay...
Syd Kitchen
Scars That Shine
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Skollie, saint, scholar, hippest of hippies, imperfect musician with a perfect imagination, Syd Kitchen was, like all great artists, born to enrich his art and not himself. Plagued by drugs, alcohol and depression, too much of an outlaw to be embraced by record companies, he frequently sold his furniture...
Third World Child
Born White, Zulu Bred
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
GG Alcock's parents, Creina and Neil, were humanitarians who gave up comfortable lives to move to rural Zululand. In a place called Msinga, a dry rock-strewn wilderness and one of the most violent places in Africa, they lived and worked among the Mchunu and Mthembu tribes, fighting for the rights...
Beyond the Baldness
An inpirational story of beating the odds twice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Mark Pilgrim had wanted to be on radio since he was thirteen years old, yet it always seemed like an unobtainable dream. It took a life-threatening illness to motivate him to pursue his passion. At the age of eighteen his radio dream was on the back burner. Mark had just completed the first year of...
KasiNomic Revolution
The Rise of African Informal Economies
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
The informal business sector is the next great frontier of Africa and it is undergoing an economic revolution, a new world of small people doing big things, transforming the continent. Prepare for this new generation, prepare for the Afripolitan Generation.
A revolution is taking place in the...
Favourite Traditional Recipes of Ghana
For All Food Lovers and Great Cooks Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
As with much of African history, Ghanaian recipes were not recorded in writing but were passed down from mother to daughter in the oral tradition. This rich and diverse cuisine thus remained largely unknown in the wider world for many years. Fortunately for adventurous cooks everywhere, this deficiency...
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