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Zulu vs Xhosa: how colonialism used language to divide South Africa's two biggest ethnic groups

The beautiful thing about history is that it can help us develop a more complex understanding of the things we consider natural in our daily lives. People like to believe that their languages have ...
Los Angeles Times

Wedding Brings Xhosa, Zulu Tribes Together

South Africa’s powerful Xhosa and Zulu nations sealed an important union as Nelson Mandela’s great-grandnephew and King Goodwill Zwelithini’s daughter wed. The marriage ceremony of Tembu Chief Nfundo ...
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Mazisi Kunene, 76; Zulu Poet, Teacher Fought Apartheid

Even while living in exile, thousands of miles from South Africa, Mazisi Kunene wrote poetry from home. Epic poems that explain the cycles of creation and destruction, the wisdom of the ancestors, the ...
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Umlungu: the colourful history of a word used to describe white people in South Africa

In South Africa “umlungu” is a word that’s commonly used to refer to white people. It comes from isiXhosa, the language of the country’s Xhosa people. It’s always been a mystery how the word ...
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A language-teaching app tests tongues with Zulu and Xhosa

IN 1991 AMERICAN audiences had an introduction to Xhosa, one of South Africa’s most click-filled languages, when Miriam Makeba (pictured) appeared on “The Cosby Show”. When the celebrated South ...
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Zulu vs Xhosa: how colonialism used language to divide South Africa’s two biggest ethnic groups

Jochen S. Arndt received funding from the Social Sciences Research Council, American Historical Association, and Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. The beautiful thing about ...