Learning a new foreign language can be very beneficial and you can try starting with the following easiest African languages to learn. This is useful if you plan to travel to Africa or you are just ...

THE Grade 2 class from New Hanover Preparatory School went on an overnight outing to Ecabazini, the Zulu cultural homestead, which is one of the highlights of the year. The children were enthralled ...

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 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The University of KwaZulu-Natal has announced that starting next year, all ...

A Chinese university has established a Zulu programme to enable students there to learn the language, thus strengthening ties between the two countries. The Beijing Foreign Studies University has set ...

Google has added a number of languages to Google Translate including Zulu, Xhosa and Swahili and it reckons that it will translate these languages rather effectively. The reason behind this claim is ...

IsiZulu is a rich and diverse language with numerous dialects and nuances. Duduzile Zuma, uMkhonto weSizwe member and daughter of former president Jacob Zuma recently announced that she can’t speak ...

Huang Lizhi returned to Beijing early last year after five years studying Zulu — the most widely spoken language in South Africa — at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Huang, a ...