Cleverly, the architects of apartheid also made sure that the blacks wouldn't unite against the ruling white elite by subdividing the black population into ten separate subgroups, mainly along linguistic lines (with Zulu and Xhosa being the two largest ones) to pit them against each other. Among...
“Xhosa?” She growled in response, a sound so like hatred, he would have pulled back if the tree trunk didn’t stop him. The female Xhosa visited his dreams often and they got along well. They discussed topics no one shared his interest in—where the herds went during their migrations...
her birth in Singapore," debut 2011 but mostly since 2017, different group from that of her 2019 album Alula, the synths replaced with Val Jeanty's turntables/electronics, the new drummer Tyshawn Sorey, with Chris Tordini on bass, and a couple guest spots, and scattered spoken word samples...
NEW WORD GAMES! Feeling competitive? Test your skills in one of four exciting new word games: - Duels - It’s fast-paced, head-to-head Scrabble! You’ll be matched up against players of similar skill and play five turns each. But hurry up, because each turn is on a timer. Victories...
[a combination of] everything up till today. I’m still running with it. But I am making sure that I am creating music with a lot more reasoning in terms of satisfaction, and with an intensesankofa[a Twi word and phrase that connotes learning from the past to inform the future] kind...
- you can add a new flashcard yourself or pick a word from our library. Translations are on us, and they’re free. - this is really cool: you can select any PDF file, text file, or pretty much any text, and we’ll create flashcards with examples for you. You definitely have to ...
Dream Healing in Southern African with John Lockley The shamanic odyssey of John Lockley takes us deeper on a path in which the patient becomes the initiate. He was called by the “calling illness” the Xhosa callthwasaillness and by dreams to become a white sangoma.. He reports that in...
Xhosa, and Zulu, and to embody characters throughout his childhood – his mother, his gran, his schoolmates, first crushes and infatuations – brings each memory to life in vivid detail. Hearing him directly, you’re reminded of the gift inherent in telling one’s story and having it heard...
Trevor Noah details his life having been born in apartheid South Africa, where his birth to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother was illegal. He was kept mostly indoors for the first five years of his life, his mother having to take extreme measures to keep them both safe. It...
“While we can observe the motion, we’re still not sure why the cheetah does what it does,” he said. “Is the cat trying to conserve energy when running, increase maneuverability, or intercept its prey in the shortest time? Inverse reinforcement learning will help us unde...