Objectives

 

  • To enhance your cultural awareness and content for isiZulu.
  • To encourage collaboration with one another and eventually with your counterparts/ peers who may be both L1 speakers and L2 speakers who are in KwaZulu-Natal, in South Africa.
  • You will be using the WebCT discussion board, and chats where possible in terms of time zone difference.
  • To expose you to at least three of the important cultural ceremonies of amaZulu involving cattle slaughter [E.g. Rite of passage for females “umemulo”, communicating with or appeasing ancestral spirits "ukubuyisa", and a wedding situation and “ilobolo”,(sometimes translated as ‘bride-price) an equivalent of dowry in some cultures.]


 

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