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Proudly South African: Mzansi reacts to 2 men speaking Xhosa, highlighting unity in a video

A viral video of two men speaking Xhosa at a petrol station in Gqeberha highlights South African unity, cultural connection ...
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Xhosa Women Dancing, Transkei, South Africa

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Yahoo

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 ...
The New York Times

Using Dance to Provoke, Delight and Tell South Africa’s Stories

Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ...
Time

South Africa: Something for the Xhosa

If Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has his way, most of South Africa’s 11,000,000 Bantu (native blacks) one day will live in their own Bantustans—eight big isolated reserves in regions safely separate ...
The Economist

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 ...
The Conversation

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 ...