Sounds of the Khoikhoi language fill a hall at the Castle of Good Hope where classes to teach from South Africa’s oldest indigenous language family are held every weekend. By Yazeed Kamaldien for ...

Language and identity are inextricably interlinked. So what happens when a language dies, or is suppressed? When Katrina Esau spoke to her older sister, Griet Seekoei, they spoke in N|uu. It is a ...

Africa’s Namib Desert is a harsh and unforgiving place, home to shifting, barren sand dunes, jagged mountains, and gravel plains. The vast desert — whose name means “place of no people” in the local ...