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The foundations of the Dholuo written language and today's Dholuo literary tradition, as well as the modernization of the Joluo people in Kenya, began in 1907. It began with the arrival of a Canadian-born Seventh-day Adventist missionary Arthur Asa Grandville Carscallen , whose missionary work over a period of about 14 years along the eastern ...
Fanagalo, or Fanakalo, is a vernacular or pidgin based primarily on Zulu with input from English and a small amount of Afrikaans. [3] It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in the gold, diamond, coal and copper mining industries in South Africa and to a lesser extent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
tilapia – possibly a Latinization of "tlhapi", the Tswana word for "fish" [14] tsetse – from a Bantu language (Tswana tsetse, Luhya tsiisi) ubuntu – Nguni term for "mankind, humanity", in South Africa since the 1980s also used capitalized, Ubuntu, as the name of a philosophy or ideology of "human kindness" or "humanism" uhuru – from ...
An informal trading post/convenience store found in townships and remote areas. [43] standard Besides other meanings, used to refer to a school grade higher than grades 1 and 2 (now defunct). State President Head of state between 1961 and 1994 - the position is now the President of South Africa. Stompie A discarded cigarette / cigarette butt-end.
Afrikaans (noun: name of language, from "african") derivative: Afrikaner (person who speaks Afrikaans as their native tongue), plural: Afrikaners; apartheid (literally "apart-ness"): also the name of a period of segregation in the country during 1948–1994; bergwind (warm dry wind blowing from the plateau to the coast)
There are various definitions of the word "Ubuntu". The most recent definition was provided by the African Journal of Social Work (AJSW). The journal defined Ubuntu as: A collection of values and practices that people of Africa or of African origin view as making people authentic human beings.
Mzungu (pronounced [m̩ˈzuŋɡu]), also known as muzungu, mlungu, musungu or musongo, is a Bantu word that means "wanderer" originally pertaining to the first European explorers to the East African region whom the local ethnic groups thought were traveling aimlessly with no goals to settle, conquer or trade, like restless spirits – the initial explorers who unbeknownst to the local tribes ...
The people and their language first began to attract scholarly attention in the 1660s, coinciding with Dutch colonial efforts in the Cape of Good Hope and the resulting armed conflicts. [3] At the time, Khoemana was widely spoken throughout the coastal regions of South Africa.