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...bowed to such compromise is testimony to the fact that the Nelson Mandela who walked with such dignity out of prison in February 1990 was not the same firebrand who had been placed there 27 years before. Born into the royal family of the Thembu, a clan of the Xhosa tribe based in the Transkei, Mandela was trained as a boy to rule someday as a chief. Instead he became a lawyer and an A.N.C. militant. It was just a few months after then A.N.C. leader Chief Albert Luthuli was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize that Mandela urged...
...mourners who gathered inside the church for the 90-minute service. Outside, in an emotional farewell, some 20,000 blacks filled the streets. As the flower-draped coffin was loaded into the hearse, they raised their fists in the black-power salute of the A.N.C. and chanted in the Xhosa language, "She is a soldier." Said the Rev. Allan Boesak: "Molly continues in death what she did all her life. She brings us together...
...highlight of Harvard’s African Studies program is its African Language program, which is under the direction of John M. Mugane. Eight languages—Bamana, Hausa, Igbo, Kikongo, Malagasi, Twi, Xhosa and Yoruba—now join Swahili in the collection of African languages Harvard offers...
English is the most widely used of South Africa's 11 official languages, but visitors are likely to encounter several regional tongues - Afrikaans in the Western Cape, Xhosa in the Eastern Cape, Zulu in KwaZulu-Natal, Sotho in the Free State - when traveling through the country. There's also a hybrid dialect called Fanagalo (do like this) that dates back to the days when black Africans were recruited for work in the white-owned Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits...
...addition to teaching languages widely-spoken in Africa such as Hausa, Swahili, Xhosa and Zulu every year, the department will respond to student interests to hire native speakers on an as-needed basis to teach African languages not currently offered. The teachers must have college degrees, and John M. Mugane, the director of the African Languages Program, will oversee the teachers to ensure accountability...