This is a documentation of me as a modern young black Xhosa woman, covering my head with a head scarf (known as iqhiya in Xhosa), wearing a long skirt and not looking at elders in the eye for 10 days. This is usually done by South African black women (Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho, Tswana, and many other South African cultural groups) when they get married, but they do this for the rest of their married life. It is known as ukuhlonipha in Xhosa (which means giving respect).
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Found a very interesting blog, Maundering mutterer. Extremely relevant to what this intervention is largely about.
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