Words of Batswana. Letters to Mahoko a Becwana, 1883-1896
by Mgadla, Part T., and Stephen C. Volz (translators and editors)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0958513414
- ISBN 13
- 9780958513418
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 2006) 0958513414. Second Series No. 37. 8vo; original dark brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt publisher's monogram to upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xlv + (v) + 374, incl. index and publisher's catalogue; frontis.; maps; some illustrations. Near-fine condition. "Words of Batswana presents a selection of letters and articles that were written by Batswana for Mahoko a Becwana (News/Words of Batswana), a Setswana-language newspaper published by missionaries of the London Missionary Society at Kuruman between 1883 and 1896. ... These writings offer a rare and revealing glimpse of conversations that took place among literate Africans during a crucial period in the formation of modern South Africa and Botswana. They are reproduced here both in their original Setswana form and as translated into English." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13171
- Title
- Words of Batswana. Letters to Mahoko a Becwana, 1883-1896
- Author
- Mgadla, Part T., and Stephen C. Volz (translators and editors)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0958513414
- ISBN 13
- 9780958513418
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 2006) 0958513414
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town
- This edition first published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Mission Presses. Kuruman. Botswana. Tswana African Languages
- Bookseller catalogs
- African Languages;
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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