Word: bantu
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...Press Freedom in Africa: Challenges and Opportunites--with Erica Chinje of Cameroon National Television; Isaac Bantu of BBC Africa Service, Liberia; and Charles Onyango-Obbo of Weekly Topic, Uganda. In Coolidge Hall, room...
...jaundiced eye on the habits and mores of the other's culture. That technique is evident in The Song Dog, the title of which refers to a tribal folkloric figure who speaks in Delphic riddles. Once Kramer formally meets Zondi, halfway through the book -- after assuming he is a Bantu hoodlum, not an undercover cop -- they quickly form a bond. Kramer is not a white of great racial sensitivity, or Zondi a black of great deference. But they respect each other because they keep reaching the same conclusions -- while reflecting cultural differences by getting there through divergent, if equally plausible...
...youth rebellion began on June 16, 1976, when the schoolchildren of Soweto, seething over the inferior instruction known as Bantu education, rose up in protest against the state's edict that their lessons must be learned in Afrikaans, the language of the ruling whites. The initial battles left more than 400 dead, but the uprising was never completely quelled. In 1984 the comrades of the still simmering townships rebelled again, setting off a series of violent protests that killed more than 2,000 over the next two years and prompted the government to impose a state of emergency. The turmoil...
...little education is better than none. Despite the inferiority of Bantu education in South Africa, I learned certain positive things. I learned discipline and responsibility, to delay gratification. Above all, I learned that knowledge can overcome oppression. I ask young black people what they believe about themselves, and they tell me in a very sad way that black people are not as good as whites...
...with a huge head to symbolize great wisdom or a massive chest to convey strength. But should he be depicted as an African? Urban Christians are more open to this than believers in the bush. Commissioned by the Catholic Cathedral in Kananga, Zaire, Enkobo Mpane created his first Bantu Christ from ebony in 1969. Parishioners rejected the work, so it hangs in a nearby convent. "Our parishioners still think of Christ as a Jew and not an African," reports Arley Brown, a U.S. Baptist teaching in Kinshasa. But Nigerian Anglican architect Fola Alade insists, "If Jesus...