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KhoikhoiMember of any of several peoples living in Namibia and Cape Province of South Africa. They number about 30,000. Their language is related to San (spoken by the Kung) and uses clicks for certain consonants; it belongs to the Khoisan family. The Khoikhoi once inhabited a wider area, but were driven into the Kalahari Desert by invading Bantu peoples and Dutch colonists in the 18th century. They live as nomadic hunter-gatherers, in family groups, and have animist beliefs. |
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| Tensions led to a showdown following the viceroy's death in 1829, culminating in the Le Van Khoi Rebellion of 1833-35, an event better known as a peasant rebellion than as a rebellion of regional elites. By likening isolated, impoverished neighborhoods to the prisons that incarcerate so many black men, drawing parallels between Sarah Bartmann, the Khoi woman dubbed the "Hottentot Venus" in the 19th century, and singer Beyonce, and even dissecting the 1997 film Booty Call, Hill Collins details how past distortions remain present, despite assertions that we are first becoming a color blind society. Khoi Ta, 418th Flight Test Squadron propulsion engineer. |
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