Divided by the Word: Colonial Encounters And The Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities

Author: Jochen S Arndt

Focuses on the divide between Zulu and Xhosa speakers, Divided by the Word offers a refreshing new appreciation for the deep historicity of language and ethnic identity in South Africa, by reconstructing the ways in which colonial forces generate and impose ethnic divides with long-lasting and lethal consequences.