Coming to a Foreign Country: adjusting to the University of KwaZulu-Natal

In the chapter, Coming to a Foreign Country: adjusting to the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Ntokozo Zulu writes about the importance of being black to her as a student at UKZN. Coming from a black single-sex high school, she welcomes the opportunity to interact with students of other ‘races’, as well as males. Significantly, she writes about how little she knows about people in her classes from other ‘races’ despite being with them for two years. But she stresses the importance of lecturers encouraging ‘racial’ mixing in group work. Ntokozo also discusses the concerns of black students who come from relatively resource-poor high school backgrounds: struggles with varsity fees and problems of reading and writing with speed and fluency in English.

Reference:
Zulu, Ntokozo. 'Coming to a Foreign Country: adjusting to the University of KwaZulu-Natal', in Rob Pattman and Sultan Khan (Eds.), Undressing Durban (Durban: Madiba Press, 2007), pp. 405-406.