A discussion about the rise of Kaaps as a literary language and its relationship with Afrikaans and coloured culture. Academic and critic Hein Willemse (The Arabic-Afrikaans Writing Tradition) speaks to the Paarl-born poet Gaireyah Fredericks (Een Voet Innie Kabr) and Charmaine Africa, whose Cape Flats memoir Amma is written entirely in Kaaps. This session will be bi-lingual.
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