“Kom Khoi San, kry trug jou land”: Disrupting White Settler Colonial Logics of Language, Race, and Land with Afrikaaps

This article offers a broad and deep discussion of critical issues in the study language, race, political economy through an analysis verbal art, aesthetics, performances South African hip hop artists. In particular, we present in-depth Afrikaaps language movement Cape Town, Africa theorize language-race-land complex , range with respect to co-constitution refusal colonial logics land. Specifically, address Africa. is hiphopera that disrupts white settler land interrogation revision supremacist constructions Afrikaans. reinvention frees Afrikaans-speaking, so-called Coloured community from oppressive, them new ways envisioning their linguistic, racial, spatial, political-economic futures. We argue that, for artists–activists involved this decolonial, raciolinguistic movement, Hip Hop becomes vehicle raising consciousness foregrounding Indigenous knowledge systems, upending legacies apartheid radical re-education. Methodologically, center Black artists’ voices, understanding be more than cultural producers but also theorists. draw upon our longitudinal, ethnographic engagement artists theatre production related forms activism (Alim & Haupt 2015, 2017; 2012; et al. 2019; Jansen Stroud Williams 2018), as well media analyses production, soundtrack, documentary film (Valley 2010).