Cultures are not static objects that once formed, remain intact forever. The very cultures practised today as if they are ...

It was very painful to go through,” one previous participant said of the traditional ceremony that designates the transition ...

The 2025 summer Ulwaluko initiation ritual among the Xhosa people ended tragically with 39 boys dead. Illegal initiation ...

This year’s circumcision ceremony where men between the ages of 16 and 26 undergo agonising ritual ceremony has ended in South Africa, with 39 deaths recorded and dozens others had their male organs ...

Although the NMD HU Clear Aqua was inspired by the Xhosa culture, one of the largest tribes in South Africa, it will not be sold in the country, and South Africans are not happy.

Research in African Literatures, founded in 1970, is the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide and provides a forum in English for research on the oral and written literatures of ...

African Shirts comments on another film from South Africa…U-Carmen eKhayelitsha which is a ” Xhosa language film based on Bizet's opera Carmen, and it won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film ...