One of the Niger-Congo languages of Africa you might recognize most isSwahili, whose different dialects are spoken by about 18 million people natively and 82 million as a second language. It was influenced heavily by Arabic due in no small part to the history of trade between Africa and peop...
Zandile Madliwa stars as young Lindi, while Ivy Nkutha portrays the older Lindi sharing her story with Detective Kuda Maseko in the present day. The film’s music, composed by Bruce Retief, pays homage to the greats of Sophiatown. Directed by Michael Mutombo and King Shaft, 1960 is a com...
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Nie net gaan ek Engels praat nie, maar ek gaan nou vir Kaapstad ook in Afrikaans bemark. Daar is so baie plekke wat regtig die moeite werd is om besoek te word, dat ek voel dat ek nie reg laat geskied aan die plekke as ek die rede hoekom mens moet besoek, in my tweede taa...
In contrast to the red of the desert and the green of the vegetation, the sky is a superb blue. It is a glorious day. For the middle of winter, it is warm. When we make camp tonight it will be a different story. We can expect the temperature to drop into single digits after the...
is 19. Rinkhal was always going to be a nickname, not his real name, so I shifted it to the end and went looking for a first name. I can't remember how I even know Akkedis, which is the Afrikaans word for lizard, but I like it and it suited him and it's kind of ...
about a group of children's fateful game of hide-and-seek; "Onsa," about the problems involved in recording Icelandic place-names; "Fuglaskoari og jurtasafnari," about an argument between an ornithologist and a botanist; and "Onot saga," about a story which "never became a story. ...
Where culture enters the story is in setting particular parameters, early in development, as each child builds a signature moral system. Evidence for this position is beginning to emerge, but enough is already in play to foreshadow a revolution in our understanding of morality and its origins. ...
An unusual example of this creative use of diction is James Joyce’sA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In Joyce’s famous modernist novel, the narration mimics the diction of a very young child at the story’s start: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a ...
C. Your only concern is to get out as fast as possible. D. Calm yourself down and doing nothing is good for you. E. For example, you can take a piece of white cloth and hang it out of the second-story window. F. If you hear your smoke alarm go off and see fire, try to lea...