“Being invited into the teacher’s home”

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Notes

¹ Sanders, Learning Zulu, 3.

² Ibid., 7.

³ Ibid., 117.

⁴ Ibid., 31.

⁵ The term for a white person; depending on usage the connotations range from derogatory to neutral.

⁶ Sanders, Learning Zulu, 84.

⁷ “Deep” Xhosa or Zulu is a colloquial term used to describe varieties of the language uncontaminated by anglicisims or urban vernaculars. It is a language variety often associated (admiringly) with the way grandmothers speak, and is the variety often privileged in classrooms where Zulu and Xhosa are taught.

⁸ Sanders, Learning Zulu, 46.

⁹ Sanders, Learning Zulu, 44.

¹⁰ Sanders, Learning Zulu, 58.

¹¹ Sanders comments on the ambivalence in the term, which can mean to beg forgiveness, but also to ask (more literally) for peace.

¹² Sanders, Learning Zulu, 65.

¹³ Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance.