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Khoikhoi

Member 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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Wicomb's essay traces the notion of translation (or translatability) in the racialised modernity of South Africa back to the historical moment when Europeans first arrived to settle at the Cape and cultural "translator" Eva-Krotoa moved between the newcomers at the Castle and the Khoi-Khoi people.
Alternative Modernities in African Literatures and Cultures II by Olver, Thomas / Journal of Literary Studies
The Khoi-khoi were the indigenous herders of the Cape of Good Hope who were contemptuously called "Hottentots" by German and Dutch settlers because of the sound of their "click" languages.
Sounds of the "Third Way": identity and the African Renaissance in ... by Coplan, David B. / Black Music Research Journal
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