Boudina McConnachie

Sonic selves, ancestral archives: Identity, language and cultural memory in amaXhosa sacred practice

Among the amaXhosa of South Africa’s Eastern Cape, knowledge lives less in texts than in bodies, voices and sacred landscapes. In Hamburg, at the mouth of the Keiskamma River, knowledge of the ocean, river, forest and healing plants is transmitted in isiXhosa through song, carried by elders whose authority rests on acc...