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 ...
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 ...
There was a traffic snarl-up in the streets leading to the Anglican Cathedral in Umtata in the Eastern Cape as the cavalcade of top-of-the-range luxury vehicles accompanied by wailing sirens whisked ...