#kaffir

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Mochudi, a Kaffir town in Botswana

British vintage postcard

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Spotlight: African Folktales

For Black History Month I found another book of folktales (shocker) to share with you all! The fun and exciting part of this job is being able to look into things that one would not normally take the time to explore, and I have been given the opportunity to do nothing but explore and dig into the expansive collection we have in Special Collections (if you aren’t getting interested to come in and take a peek, you should be).

The book I am keen on sharing is The Ox of the Wonderful Horns: And Other African Folktales, a children’s book from our Historical Curriculum Collection, published in New York by Atheneum in 1971. The stories were retold and illustrated by Ashley Frederick Bryan (1923-2022), an American writer and illustrator for children’s books, of which most of his subjects focus on the African-American experience. Bryan’s desire and challenge for the anthology was to “bring the stilted language of the linguists’ narration back to an oral tradition through rhythm and poetic verses.”

This anthology features five tales from Akan-Ashanti, Angolan, South African, and Kaffir myths with various illustrations accompanying us through each story. The illustrations switch between half-page black and white and full-page color that are meant to evoke African wood block motifs that suggest the ochres and reds of African clay dyes and African textile designs; very eye-catching and absorbing!

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-- Elizabeth, Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

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Kh oc week

Day 3 - friends family

@khoc-week while Aronia really only knows the lightbringers close enough to be considered friends…just like the four main food groups there are four divisions within.

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Ramadan is almost here and I am so not ready for this shit, someone shoot me please

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Jedi mind games

Europeans from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 Britain 🇬🇧 and United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Come into South Africa 🇿🇦 tell the natives 👋🏾 you guys are foreigners But we have indigenous rights here

The Europeans called themselves Afrikaners and their European language Afrikaans

While calling Zulus,Xhosa,Tswana,Swazi,Tsonga,Pedi,Sotho etc Kaffirs and Blacks

Now accepting black you gave up your rights, you can’t even say that it’s a skin color Khoisan ppl are not blacks

Just reading the term Afrikaners makes it seem like they are indigenous and we are foreigners in Africa

Jedi mind games

Notice they say hey your “skin color” not your race is black

When you say African it connects you to African culture

Then confuse you by saying you ain’t never been africa you don’t know anything about africa

Jedi mind games

Nationality: What nation are you from or have citizenship to

Racial origins: African,Asians and Europeans

Ethnicity: Example my dad Amhara are an ethnic group in East Africa

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Art fights art fights

First (Kero) is a revenge on Bellxmy

Second (Kaffir) is a revenge on tacua!

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