Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) 2023
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.8
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Analyzing political formation through historical isiXhosa text analysis: Using frequency analysis to examine emerging African Nationalism in South Africa

Jonathan Schoots

Abstract: This paper showcases new research avenues made possible by applying computational methods to historical isiXhosa text. I outline a method for isiXhosa computational text analysis which adapts word frequency analysis to be applied to isiXhosa texts focusing on root words. The paper showcases the value of the approach in a study of emerging political identities in early African nationalism, examining a novel dataset of isiXhosa newspapers from 1874 to 1890. The analysis shows how a shared identity of 'Blackness'… Show more

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