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Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in the Eastern Cape, the paper explores the interconnections between dreams (amathongo, amaphupha) and medicines (amayeza, imithi, amachiza) as aspects of the Xhosa diviner’s culture, knowledge and.
Many African tribes believe and worship ancestors as helpers that guide and protect the family providing the necessary ancestral tradition is fully practiced.
Notable events, figures, dates, practices, current and future effects on the economy, as well as contemporary relevance. This way, the researcher aims to give the audience a different yet better perspective of the apartheid struggle, with Africa at a glance. Download Free PDF.
The indigenous people of Transkei, Eastern Cape, South Africa depend on the natural plant resources from their environment for medicine, food, pastoral, cultural and religious needs. This area, mainly inhabited by the Xhosa people, has remained ethnobotanically unexplored until recently. The present
1 kwi 2014 · The present investigation among the herbalist, traditional doctors, herb traders, tribal priests and other knowledgeable local people documented medicinal and other uses of 35 species of ...
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.
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.
