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Language and Ethnicity in Colonized South Africa - Divided by the Word: Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities By Jochen S. Arndt. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. Pp. 346. $45.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780813947358); $35.00, e-book (ISBN: 9780813947365).

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Divided by the Word: Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities By Jochen S. Arndt. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. Pp. 346. $45.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780813947358); $35.00, e-book (ISBN: 9780813947365).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2023

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South AfricaSouthern Africacolonialismlinguisticsethnicitymissions
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The Journal of African History , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , July 2023 , pp. 306 - 307
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