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27 cze 2024 · A tradition of oral poetry ( izibongo) still exists among the Xhosa-speaking tribes of South Africa, but as yet few analytical studies based on fieldwork have been published.
- Nxele, Ntsikana and the Origins of the Xhosa Religious Reaction
By incorporating selected Christian concepts with the Xhosa...
- Nxele, Ntsikana and the Origins of the Xhosa Religious Reaction
22 sty 2009 · By incorporating selected Christian concepts with the Xhosa world-view, Nxele and Ntsikana were able to provide the Xhosa with acceptable explanations of past events and prescriptions for future action.
offer here a consideration of nineteenth-century Xhosa literature in three media: printed books, the spoken word and newspapers. Literature in books. The story of creative literature printed in books - the staple of western European literary histories - can be swiftly told.
Incorporating their own oral and written testimony into a modern historical and ethnographic framework, the author examines the response of the Xhosa to the successive challenges of contact with whites; the adaptation of Xhosa cosmology to Christianity; the increasing dependence of the Xhosa on military technology in defense of their lands.
31 lip 2014 · Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2014)
The Xhosa people, according to Manyang (2019), are the second largest ethnic group in South Africa. Historically, the Xhosa people inhabited the Southern Cape region of South Africa.
19 sty 2007 · Click‐words which Xhosa, Zulu and Sotho have in common. When coming down from the North the Nguni and Southern Sotho came into contact with the Hottentots, probably first with Korana tribes. They acquired from them three main types of clicks and a certain number of click‐words.
