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Book Synopsis"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines eleme
Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times "In this deeply introspective memoir, Sanders focuses on his quest to learn the Zulu language... A valuable resource for history and political science as well as language."--Choice
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1 Learn More Zulu 14 Chapter 2 A Teacher's Novels 49 Chapter 3 Ipi Tombi 74 Chapter 4 100% Zulu Boy 96 Chapter 5 2008 115 Acknowledgments 145 Notes 147 Select Bibliography 183 Index 193
