Title:
The 100-year-old story of South Africa’s first history book in the isiZulu language
Author:
Hlonipha Mokoena
Associate Professor at the Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand
Published:
The Conversation, 7 April 2022
From the article:
This year marks the centenary of the publication in 1922 of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (The Black People and Whence They Came), the first book-length history of black people written in isiZulu. Part of the Nguni language group, there are an estimated 12 million isiZulu speakers in South Africa.