Here are five timeless African textile patterns that continue to mesmerize admirers across the globe. Hailing from Ghana, ...

"but it made its way into South African English via Afrikaans". It is related to another slang term for jail – the English term chokey. Seshweshwe or shweshwe: This comes from Southern SeSotho and ...

and it was later absorbed into South African English through Afrikaans. Seshweshwe (from 1956) and shweshwe (from 1973) are terms borrowed from Southern Sotho. They refer to a type of printed cotton ...