... can understand the customs of another group as well as their language. The reparations of knowing more than one language is in the difficulty of accomplishing tasks such as public education and mass communication. When dozens of languages are spoken widely in a single country it is impossible to produce newspapers, radio air waves, and textbooks in all of the languages. The ... -Congo contains a number of groups of languages in northern and eastern Nigeria. Most of these languages are not widely spoken. As well as the Bantu language, the Benue Congo language is widely used in Nigeria. Th...

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... force of cheap labor. The Apartheid system also called for political segregation, restructuring the bureaucracy to include separate departments for each racial group. These departments included the Bantu Administration, Coloured Affairs, Indian Affairs, and the Community Development. Each department was staffed by National Party officials and controlled the separate bureaucratic process for each racial group ... most devastating aspects of the social engineering of Apartheid was its creation of the Bantu Education Act of 1953. This act tightened the segregation of the school system and re...

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... white-owned factories, farms, and mines, which did little to improve their lives. In a book about the subject of apartheid, the author describes the attitude of the colonial government: "The Bantu in the urban areas should be regarded as migratory citizens not entitled to political or social rights equal to those of whites" (Pomeroy, Apartheid, Imperialism, and African Freedom, 8). Apartheid continued ... will land them only a minimum wage job, if they receive a job at all. Africa: For Africans living in former colonies, living conditions are often sub-standard. They were refused a prop...

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... ."" A person could not be considered white if one of his or her parents were non-white. The determination that a person was "obviously white- would take into account "his habits, education, and speech and deportment and demeanor."" The Department of Home Affairs (a government bureau) was responsible for the classification of the citizenry. Non-compliance with the race laws was dealt with ... harshly. All blacks were required to carry "pass books- containing fingerprints, photo, and information on access to non-black areas. In 1951, the Bantu Authorities Act established a basis for ethnic...

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... . The implementation of the policy, later referred to as "separate development," was made possible by the Population Registration Act of 1950, which put all South Africans into three racial categories: Bantu (black African), white, or Coloured (of mixed race). A fourth category, Asian (Indians and Pakistanis), was added later (2). This was the inception of the historical too of discrimination unleashed on the ... could also be termed as a plausible reason. The social structure at that time for the blacks was deplorable, they were assigned to low wage jobs only, had no access to education...

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... concluded that 10% refer to English as their "mother-tongue". The most common languages in South Africa are Xhosa, Tswana, Zulu, and Swahili (African Languages). Zulu is one of nine Bantu languages spoken in East Southern Africa. Approximately 8.8 million people speak this language (African Languages). Swahili is spoken as a mother language vast along the coast of East Africa. It is the ... masks represent spirits of ancestors (Fetzer 106). Some villages make masks with full costumes and use them with music to dance in ritual performances. They used masks for social control, education o...

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