The Soweto Bullets and the Silencing of Indigenous Languages

When, in June 1976, thousands of South African secondary school students marched against the imposition of Afrikaans as a language of instruction in schools, they were unaware that the battle was transgenerational and transterritorial. The battle they had taken on was against a global force that had determined that the language and culture of […] The post The Soweto Bullets and the Silencing of…