Learn Zulu with our simple to use EXTENDED phrasebook. It is a handy and comprehensive reference to cultural immersion while exploring new geographies. Impress your local business contacts or friends with confidence. Categories include Business, Shopping, Restaurant, Marketing, Trading, Careers, Meetings, Negotiations, Food, Useful Phrases, Numbers, Time, and many more.
Koopman (Zulu, U. of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) provides a rich resource for the socio-linguistic dimensions of Zulu names. The text will be of interest not just to specialists in onomastics (the study of names), but to any studying Zulu culture. Following a discussion of the traditions behind personal and place names and their linguistics is a catalog of names that include personal, animal, plant, birds, schools, homesteads, and the months and days. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Zulu is spoken by approximately 16 million people worldwide. Over 10 million of these speakers are in South Africa, where the Zulu are the largest cultural subgroup in the country. This guide includes 4,000 dictionary entries; essential phrases on topics such as transportation, dining out, and business; and a concise grammar section.
This volume reproduces key historical texts concerning `colonial knowledges’. The use of the adjective 'colonial' indicates that knowledge is shaped by power relationships, while the use of the plural form, ’knowledges’ indicates the emphasis in this collection is on an interplay between different, often competing, cognitive systems. George Balandier’s notion of the colonial situation is an organising principle that runs throughout the volume, and there are four sub-themes: language and texts, categorical knowledge, the circulation of knowledge and indigenous knowledge. The volume is designed to introduce students to a range of important interventions which speak to each other today, even if they were not intended to do so when first published. An introductory essay links the themes together and explains the significance of the individual articles.
This unique book is arranged in three columns: English, Zulu, and how to pronounce the Zulu words phonetically. This dictionary and phrasebook will serve as a helpful working tool in the classroom, at home, or for businesses and tourists to South Africa. The more you know, the more you grow. So let’s all grow together. Simunye.
In the first book which deals entirely with the subject of time in Africa and the Black Diaspora, Adjaye presents ten critical case studies of selected communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South. The essays cover a wide spectrum of manifestations of temporal experience, including cosmological and genealogical time, physical and ecological cycles, time and worldview, social rhythm, agricultural and industrial time, and historical processes and consciousness. The studies confirm the continuity of temporal experience among Africans from pre-colonial times, through the colonial period in Africa, across continents through slavery and Maroon societies, to present-day communities like the Gullah of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. The subject of time, now recognized to be relative rather than uniform, draws together evidence from a variety of disciplines, specifically history, linguistics, political science, anthropology, and philosophy.
