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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg
This book assembles and translates into English all of William Wellington Gqoba's clearly identifiable writings. They offer an insider's perspective on an African nation in transition, adapting uncomfortably to Western mores and morality, seeking to...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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This book assembles and translates into English all of William Wellington Gqoba's clearly identifiable writings. They offer an insider's perspective on an African nation in transition, adapting uncomfortably to Western mores and morality, seeking to affirm its identity by drawing on its past, standing on the brink of mobilisation to resist white control and to construct its social, political and religious independence of European colonialism--
Includes bibliographical references. - Texts in Xhosa and English translation on facing pages; introduction, acknowledgements, etc. in English. - Print version record
Texts in Xhosa and English translation on facing pages; introduction, acknowledgements, etc. in English
Verlag:
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
David Livingstone Phakamile Yali-Manisi (1926-99) was a Thembu imbongi, the most powerful exponent of the art of praise poetry in the Xhosa language, in the second half of the twentieth century. His literary career, however, was blighted by...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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David Livingstone Phakamile Yali-Manisi (1926-99) was a Thembu imbongi, the most powerful exponent of the art of praise poetry in the Xhosa language, in the second half of the twentieth century. His literary career, however, was blighted by circumstances beyond his control, and he died in total obscurity. A supporter of the African National Congress, he was the author of the earliest poem in praise of Nelson Mandela (1954)
Includes bibliographical references. - Poems in Xhosa with English translations on facing pages; introductory and other matter in English. - Print version record
