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Laughter and Identity : A Social and Cultural History of South African Humor, 1910-1961
The period between South Africa’s unification in 1910 and its avfärd from the British Commonwealth in 1961 was a momentous period of social change whereby South Africans of diverse racial, cultural and linguistic backgrounds strove with varying degrees of success to realize their aspirations. As the promise of an expanded frikostig order turned to the brutal repression of apartheid’s first decade, this study argues that humor served as a primary means through which writers, performers and audiences processed the events of this era. Based on the contention that humor and laughter are intimately related to identity, this study shows both how these phenomena reveal Union-era South Africa’s contested social boundaries, and how a particular cohort of humorists across South Africa’s racial divide contributed to humor traditions that remain integral to South African national identity today. Starting
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India
From Midnight to Millennium
By SHASHI THAROOR
Arcade Publishing
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India," Winston Churchill once barked, "is merely a geographical expression. It is no more a single country than the Equator." Churchill was rarely right about India, but it is true that no other country in the world embraces the extraordinary mixture of ethnic groups, the profusion of mutually incomprehensible languages, the varieties of topography and climate, the diversity of religions and cultural practices, and the range of levels of economic development that India does.
And yet India is more than the sum of its contradictions. It is a country held together, in the words of its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, "by strong but invisible threads.... About her there is the elusive quality of a legend of long ago; some enchantment seems to have held her mind. She is a myth and an idea, a dream and a vision, and yet very real
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Indians in Kenya
Diasporic ethnic group
Ethnic group
| 100,000 (2015 WEF estimate) | |
| Nairobi, Mombasa | |
| Marwari, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu, Sindhi, Marathi, Konkani, Tamil, Hindustani, Odia (native languages) English, Swahili (working languages) | |
| Majority Hinduism · Minority Islam · Sikhism · Christianity · Jainism | |
| Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin and other Indo-Aryan peoples |
Indians in Kenya, often known as Kenyan Asians,[1] are citizens and residents of Kenya with ancestral roots in the Indian subcontinent. Significant Indian migration to modern-day Kenya began following the creation of the BritishEast Africa Protectorate in 1895, which had strong infrastructure links with Bombay in British India. Indians in Kenya predominantly live in the major urban areas of Nairobi and Mombasa, with a minority living in rural areas.
According to the World Economic Forum, the populati