Divided by the Word Lennie Lower surprisingly little has been written

surprisingly little has been written in recent years about the methodology behind this emerging field of research

Jane Gilliard

day by day as she experienced it

on the basis of actual case material

Divided by the Word Lennie Lower surprisingly little has been writtenDivided by the Word refutes the assumption that the entrenched ethnic divide between South Africa's Zulus and Xhosas, a divide that turned deadly in the late 1980s, is elemental to both societies. Jochen Arndt reveals how the current distinction between the two groups emerged from a long and complex interplay of indigenous and foreign born actors, with often diverging ambitions and relationships to the world they shared and the languages they spoke.