The Chicago students in Sam Dyson’s language class at Walter Payton College Prep High School were jittery. They were about to deliver greetings in Zulu to South African students half a world away by ...
IN 1991 AMERICAN audiences had an introduction to Xhosa, one of South Africa’s most click-filled languages, when Miriam Makeba (pictured) appeared on “The Cosby Show”. When the celebrated South ...