Bo-Kaap Treasure Chest of Cape Town

 

"Bo-Kaaps"The Language of Colonial Resistance

 The Bo-Kaaps the Cape Muslims speak has stood the test of time and the Afrikaaners, whose language is dying now wants to speak like the Cape Muslims, because Bo-Kaaps as a langyage is warm, creative, spiritual, communal, has a sense of humour and a tongue in cheek kind of critical comment, within its nuance. Bo-Kaaps is heavily influenced by the Arabic grammatical sounds and structures. Bo-Kaaps like Arabic focuses on fluency , and hence will drop root letters, inter-change sounds of a word with others to ease pronunciation and shorten words to accelerate fluency and practmatism. Bo-Kaap is rich in integrating cultural words of various nations to give creativity and speed to heir communication skills. Bo-kaaps is also very welcoming in its word and sentence formations and allows other nations to want to imitate the Cape Muslim, who is on top of their language, very friendly people,The colonists could not penetrate their culture with their English language tricks, becaise the Bo-Kaap people simply refused their education.and instead taught their chuldren craftsmanship and islamic Faith, which supports courtesy, creativity and originality. This allowed the Cape Muslims to be highly respected and cause many Eurpeans to become Muslim. Bo-kaaps became the bastion against assimilation with the colonists. The Cape Muslims could then create their own economic system and language  which allowed them to dominate the trademanship. This is remarkable, because the colonists had to submit to the Muslim craftsmanship for the needs, venthough the Muslims did not speak their language, and had no certification from the white oppressors, The Cape Muslim power in the buidling trade can up till today be felt. Alghamdu lillaah.