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From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
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Subject: Re: language and location in "The Gods Must Be Crazy"
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 12:20:04 EST
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In article <> mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) writes:
>Does anyone know the name of the language in which "Sho Sha Losa" was sung in
>"The Gods Must Be Crazy"?  Also, does anyone know the name of the place the
>bushman was from, and where "the end of the world" actually was?  
>
Shosholoza is in the tribal language of Steven Biko's tribe. It means "go in 
peace", and is often used as a benidiction in native African Liturgies.
(This is from memory, so it could be faulty). You can find a copy of the
song on an album called "Dingaku"-which may be pressed by Mercury Records
a couple of 3 years ago. It is hard to find...it was the soundtrack of an
illegal film, I believe.

The place at the end of the world is in East Africa...one of the homelands,
I think. Might be the Dogon plateau (?!)

Greg