Why is a wedding dress white (at least in modern western culture)? When someone’s in a black mood, what does that mean? If you call some ‘green’, how experienced are they? Colours mean many different things in different cultures, but most often that meaning is imputed by metaphor or analogy – so there are a […]
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Look up the following words in a good isiZulu-English dictionary (I’m very subtly suggesting Doke & Vilakazi): i(li)butho; isihlobo; inyoka; inyoni (both under nyo-); umbala (under ba-); umkhonto; inja (under nja); & isiphoso Before I save you the trouble and give you the answers, let me tell you why you meed to look them up. […]
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