“Poéfrika: 16 June 1976” and other links…
Rethabile Masilo: “I was fifteen, but I remember the events of 16 June 1976 like it was last week. Black kids rose against the Apartheid state in South Africa, and refused Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in schools. They stamped their collective foot and said ‘No!’ And their cry shook the world. Police opened fire and the first kid to go down was Hector Pieterson. I know you've seen the now famous picture of his limp body in the hands of Mbuyisa Makhubo, his sister running alongside them.” Listen to Angela Davis report on the South Africa of almost 20 years ago in the streaming audio presentation “Angela Davis: A Report from Apartheid South Africa” here in the kinté space.
“English gets millionth word on Wednesday, site says”
CNN.com: “English contains more words than any other language on the planet and added its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.” Get the word count for, say, French and you will see the ethnicity of the English way…
Wikipedia.org Moment: “Cooper”
“Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staved vessels of a conical form, of greater length than breadth, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper's work include but are not limited to casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins, and breakers. …Cooperage as a namesake …Much like the profession of smithing has produced the popular English surname Smith and the German name Schmidt, the trade of cooperage has also given the English name Cooper, Danish name Bødker, German names like Faßbinder (literally barrel binder), Dutch names like Kuiper or Cuypers, the Hungarian name Kádár, Bodnár, Polish names such as Bednarz, Bednarski or Bednarczyk, the Czech name Bednář, the Romanian names Dogaru and Butnaru, Ukrainian familiy name Bondarenko, Ukrainian/Russian name Bondar, the Jewish name Bodner and the Portuguese names Tanoeiro and Toneleiro.”