The Chicago students in Sam Dyson’s language class at Walter Payton College Prep High School were jittery. They were about to deliver greetings in Zulu to South African students half a world away by ...
“Sawubona.” And a good day to you, too. The word you probably didn’t understand is the Zulu greeting that means “good day.” Some students at Elgin Community College are greeting each other that way ...
A leading South African university says it will make Zulu language classes compulsory for all first-year students from next year. The decision by the University of KwaZulu-Natal is aimed at promoting ...
SAWUBONA! is no longer a typically KwaZulu-Natal greeting, it’s being heard more frequently around the world as the global appeal of the isiZulu language continues to click on at a rapid rate. The ...
Huang Lizhi returned to Beijing early last year after five years studying Zulu — the most widely spoken language in South Africa — at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Huang, a ...
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 ...
Stephanie Rudwick receives funding from the DFG (German Research Foundation). This research was funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), but the views contained in this article are solely the ...
Shaka Zulu is one of the most storied figures in South African history. Believed to have been born around 1787, the man also known as uShaka kaSenzangakhona is regarded as the founder of the country’s ...
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