The Arabic-Afrikaans Writing Tradition by Achmat Davids

The Arabic-Afrikaans Writing Tradition

Achmat Davids with Suleman Essop Dangor, Hein Willemse

346 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history
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Afrikaans developed when slaves in the Cape adapted Dutch – the language of the rulers – for their own use. Many years later Afrikaans was hijacked by some white Afrikaners as ‘their language’, but Davids proved beyond doubt that it was the descen...

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