Resonances and secret histories: the author responds to responses to Learning Zulu: a secret history of language in South Africa

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Notes

¹ Apter, “Mark Sanders’ Learning Zulu,” 3. For further details, see Apter, The Translation Zone, 54–5.

² Quayson, “Of Zulu and Alienation.”

³ Ibid.

⁴ Gilmour, “Learning Zulu and Bearing Witness," 14.

⁵ Coetzee, however, is apt to play fast and loose with what I say; summarizing what I relate about wanting to understand Zola, a musician who often uses a colloquial, urban Zulu in his lyrics, Coetzee writes that “[t]his is not the Zulu Sanders is learning,” “Being invited”, 6. It should be clear from the context that, although I found it elusive, this is precisely the Zulu I was interested in learning; Sanders, Learning Zulu, 46–7.

⁶ Dlamini, “IsiZulu Phaqa.”

⁷ See Sanders, Learning Zulu, 157, note 77; 148, note 24.

⁸ I recommend Mokoena’s excellent book on Fuze: Mokoena, Magema Fuze.

⁹ Buthelezi, “Why Are You Learning Zulu Again?”, 16.

¹⁰ Ibid., 18.

¹¹ Buthelezi, “Why Are You Learning Zulu Again?”, 17.

¹² Sanders, Learning Zulu, 4.