{"id":3368,"date":"2012-10-12T13:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2012-10-12T13:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T11:23:36","slug":"quite-a-white-ou-white-guy-sings-kwaito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/quite-a-white-ou-white-guy-sings-kwaito\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Quite a White Ou&#8221; &#8211; White Guy Sings Kwaito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Quite a White Ou&#8221; is a South African music video described by its creators as &#8220;highly camouflauged marketing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnxhosa.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">UBuntu Bridge<\/a>, a Xhosa and Zulu language Training Company.&#8221; The video aims to challenge racial stereotypes in South Africa and bridge the gap between European and African cultures. Singer and songwriter &#8220;Craigieji Makhosi&#8221; created this kwaito song, a style of music popular in South Africa, in an attempt to make people aware of the enormous gap between the European and African cultures within South Africa.\u00a0The lyrics used in &#8220;Quite a White Ou&#8221; are in Xhosa, an African language spoken only in South Africa. Few white South Africans speak more than a few words of Xhosa, so communication issues are rife between white South Africans and black South Africans. Below is a translation of the chorus. Full lyrics can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vOOCQiKlZ8w&amp;feature=plcp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Quite-a-White-Ou\/192793014104707\" target=\"_blank\">Quite a White Ou on Facebook<\/a> for more controversial and humorous music videos that tackle racial, social and political issues in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Ndisafunda isiXhosa (Im still learning Xhosa)<br \/>\nNdithetha kancinci. (I speak a little only)<br \/>\nSo Khawuzekelele (So Please talk slowly)<br \/>\nxa uthetha nami (when you speak with me)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Quite a White Ou&#8221; is a South African music video described by its creators as &#8220;highly camouflauged marketing for UBuntu Bridge, a Xhosa and Zulu language Training Company.&#8221; The video aims to challenge racial stereotypes in South Africa and bridge the gap between European and African cultures. Singer and songwriter &#8220;Craigieji Makhosi&#8221; created this kwaito [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[34,162,184,310,365,388,429,438,491,500,545,606,683,792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}