AfricanXMag Volume 4 Issue 1
AfricanXMag Volume 4 Issue 1

Author: Safari Media Africa contributors

Publisher: Safari Media Africa

Published:

Total Pages: 104

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Casting basics remembered: Pursuing accuracy | Wildlife in Zimbabwe: Privilege of a few or a National asset? | Why are cows not |endangered?: A Radical approach to Conservation Learn South African English: It is past time African adventurers of yesteryear: The Maneating lions of Tsavo | Africa - the good news:The good news from Africa Make a Plan: In the dark? | True North:The evil behind all evil

Slangosphere
Slangosphere

Author: Onesimus Malatji

Publisher: Onesimus Malatji

Published: 2023-12-30

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13:

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"Slangosphere: Navigating Global Street Talk and Social Media Buzzwords" is an encyclopedic journey through the colourful and diverse vernaculars of our global village. This dictionary stands as a testament to the rich tapestry of linguistic innovation found in urban environments and digital spaces across continents. From the vibrant street markets of Johannesburg to the bustling urban centres of London, New York, and Lagos, this volume captures the essence of contemporary street talk and digital communication. The dictionary is structured to provide readers with an alphabetical and numerical exploration of slang terms and social media language. It includes popular expressions from South Africa like "lekker" and "braai," West African favourites like "nyash," American and British urban lexicons, and universally recognized social media acronyms like "LOL" and regional favourites such as "SBWL." Each entry in "Slangosphere" not only provides definitions but also delves into the cultural origins and contextual usage of the terms. This approach offers insights into the social, cultural, and historical underpinnings of slang and social media language, highlighting how these expressions reflect societal trends, cultural identities, and generational shifts. In addition to being a linguistic guide, "Slangosphere" is also an educational tool that fosters understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity. It serves as a bridge for readers to connect with the nuanced and often unspoken aspects of global cultures, promoting cross-cultural understanding in an increasingly interconnected world. Through "Slangosphere," readers will embark on a linguistic adventure, gaining not just knowledge of words and phrases, but an appreciation for the dynamic and creative nature of language as it evolves within urban streets and the digital realm. This dictionary is an invaluable resource for linguists, cultural enthusiasts, social media aficionados, and anyone intrigued by the rich diversity of global street talk and the lexicon of the digital age

Playing the Changes
Playing the Changes

Author: Darius Brubeck

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2024-07-23

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0252047443

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Catherine and Darius Brubeck’s 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair recount their time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where they built a pioneering academic program in jazz music and managed and organized bands, concerts, and tours around the world. The Brubecks and the musicians faced innumerable obstacles, from the intensification of apartheid and a lack of resources to the hardscrabble lives that forced even the most talented artists to the margins. Building a program grounded in multi-culturalism, Catherine and Darius encouraged black and white musicians to explore and expand the landscape of South African jazz together Their story details the sometimes wily, sometimes hilarious problem-solving necessary to move the institution forward while offering insightful portraits of South African jazz players at work, on stage, and providing a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. Frank and richly detailed, Playing the Changes provides insiders’ accounts of how jazz intertwined with struggle and both expressed and resisted the bitter unfairness of apartheid-era South Africa.

The Cambridge History of the English Language
The Cambridge History of the English Language

Author: Richard M. Hogg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 9780521264785

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Volume 5 covers the dialects of England since 1776, the historical development of English in the former Celtic-speaking countries, and English other countries.

Patagonia
Patagonia

Author: Maya Fowler

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2018-05-02

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 141520926X

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Tertius de Klerk: Afrikaner, hapless academic and potential has-been. A drunken one-night stand with a student, the confrontation, a terrible incident. Tertius must flee. Like his great-grandfather Basjan before him, Tertius leaves for Patagonia, the remote South American region where his forebears started anew after the Anglo- Boer War. It’s a desperate act, but also an opportunity to seek refuge among longlost relatives on the windswept plains of the continent’s southernmost tip. History repeats itself as his spirited wife Alta sets off after him – just as his great-grandmother Salome pursued the wayward Basjan across ocean and desert. With a heady mix of adventure and humour, Maya Fowler’s novel spans the wide Patagonian plains, and transports you to the New World on Spanish soil, where the Afrikaans language survives to this day.

The Sword and the Pen
The Sword and the Pen

Author: Allister Sparks

Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers

Published: 2016-02-29

Total Pages: 693

ISBN-13: 1868425606

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Allister Sparks joined his first newspaper at age 17 and was pitched headlong into the vortex of South Africa's stormy politi. His autobiography, The Sword and the Pen: Six decades on the political frontier, is the story of how as a journalist he watched and chronicled and participated in his country's unfolding drama for over half a century, covering events from the premiership of DF Malan to the presidency of Jacob Zuma, and witnessing at close range the rise and fall of apartheid and the rise and crisis of the new South Africa. In trenchant prose, Sparks has written a remarkable account of both a life lived to its fullest capacity as well as the surrounding narrative of South Africa from the birth of apartheid, the rise of political opposition, the dawn of democracy, right through to the crisis being experienced today. 'Anyone who tries to understand what is happening in South Africa today without first digesting Allister Sparks' lucid, sensitive and comprehensive exploration of the country's multi-faceted mind, does so at his own peril.' - André Brink, on The Mind of South Africa 'His special strength is a writing talent which combines precise reportage with shrewd analysis and unusual stamina ...' - The Observer, on Tomorrow is Another Country

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Author: Tom Dalzell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13: 1317372522

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Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

Sleeper
Sleeper

Author: Mike Nicol

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2018-09-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1415210233

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First there is the killing of the minister of energy. Then the cop investigating the murder commits suicide. Fearing a conspiracy, the minister’s lover hires pi Fish Pescado to find the killer. Then she goes missing. And Fish is being stonewalled by the cops because ... ... in the dark shadows of Cape Town there’s another game being played out. A complex one involving Iranian agents, the theft of highly enriched uranium, and the kidnapping of a top scientist. Ex-spy Vicki Kahn is bribed by her former handler to track the terrorists. The hunt is deadly and nothing is what it seems. A sleeper has been awoken. isis is involved. So is the cia. There is chatter of a dirty bomb headed for Europe. And Vicki is so lost in those constantly changing shadows that even her surfer-boy Fish can’t find her.