A collection of isiZulu poems by B.W. Vilakazi, renowned as the 'father of Nguni literature', first published in 1945. The poems express yearnings for his rural life in KwaZulu-Natal and depict the suffering of black migrant workers employed on the...
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A collection of isiZulu poems by B.W. Vilakazi, renowned as the 'father of Nguni literature', first published in 1945. The poems express yearnings for his rural life in KwaZulu-Natal and depict the suffering of black migrant workers employed on the gold mines in Johannesburg, subject to the ruthless exploitation of the capitalist system.
Ukufa kukaShaka is a historical drama in isiZulu. Based on the events surrounding the assassination of Shaka, the mighty Zulu king, by his two half-brothers, Dingane and Mhlangana, aided and abetted by his paternal aunt, Mkabayi, in 1828. In the play...
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Ukufa kukaShaka is a historical drama in isiZulu. Based on the events surrounding the assassination of Shaka, the mighty Zulu king, by his two half-brothers, Dingane and Mhlangana, aided and abetted by his paternal aunt, Mkabayi, in 1828. In the play Elliot Zondi explores the classic theme of the tragic hero's fatal flaws.
Inkondlo kaZulu (Zulu Poems), the first volume of poetry by B. W. Vilakazi, was first published in 1935. This was the first book of poems ever published in isiZulu; it also marked the launch of the newly established Bantu (later, African) Treasury...
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Inkondlo kaZulu (Zulu Poems), the first volume of poetry by B. W. Vilakazi, was first published in 1935. This was the first book of poems ever published in isiZulu; it also marked the launch of the newly established Bantu (later, African) Treasury Series, a collection of twenty classic works written between 1935 and 1987 in African indigenous languages. It contains superb nature poems and also reflects Vilakazi's contact with Western modernity. As both a traditional imbongi (bard) and a forward-looking poet who could fuse Western poetic forms with Zulu izibongo (praise poetry), he used his writings to express his resistance to the realities of capitalist exploitation of African labour and the appalling injustices of the migrant labour system. By committing to writing in poetic form what had traditionally been conveyed orally from one generation to the next, he preserves for future generations deep philosophical and emotional experiences of Zulu society. The republication of Inkondlo kaZulu affords the reader the opportunity to reappraise Vilakazi's intellectual significance and his renown as the 'father of Nguni literature' at a time when the need is acutely felt to unshackle ourselves from ethnic boundaries and break the invisible chains of inherited prejudice
