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Podcasts

isiNtu podcasts

I have been recording podcasts about topics relating to Indigenous Knowledge Systems, as part of my work with South African Heritage Publishers and the Ancestral Voices Collection. I will be posting them here as they are finished. I hope that you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoy recording them!

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research

Forgotten Sustainabilities in Indigenous Archives

a keynote presentation at the UniZul Conference on Sustainable Information representing: South African National Lexicography Units & South African Heritage Publishers For more information, you can visit http://www.saheritagepublishers.co.za or email info@saheritagepublishers.co.za. [greeting in isiZulu, explaining who I am and why I am here, and introducing the topic to everyone] Which word does one use for […]

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Linguistics / ubuLimi

*hlung {word route}

There are two separate ideas that converge in this word, along with the strange shapes that they make with your mouth when you say it. The first idea is that of ‘winnowing’ or sifting, from the ur-Bantu stem -ĸuŋga, meaning ‘sift’. And the second centres on what I would argue is the nominalised form of […]