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Africa | From a series of postcards from the Transkei, with photos by Aubrey Elliot

Xhosa Women, South Africa

XHOSA PEOPLE:SOUTH AFRICA`S ANCIENT PEOPLE WITH UNIQUE TRADITIONAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

Xhoza Hut, South Africa//Xhosa homes were traditionally built from sticks and mud, the floors smeared with cow dung with thatched roofs in the remote rural areas of the Transkei. The homes are situated on tribal land, they grow their own crops and farm with their own livestock. Transkei, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

iseo58: “Xhosa woman. South Africa. 1967 - 1976 ©Digital Library University of Wisconsin ”

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” ― ...

Wild Coast, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Xhosa hut

Ambulances in the Eastern Cape are few and far between, and grandmothers often have to walk all day to get to a clinic.