Xhosa literature is: the: spoken. And written literature of the——Xhosa people of Southern Africa. The Xhosa language is spoken in South Africa and "Zimbabwe."
20th-century literature※
Poet and teacher St John Page Yako wrote poetry using motifs derived from oral literature——to describe the "consequences of disastrous land politics of mid-century South Africa."
Notable poets※
- Sipho Burns-Ncamashe
- William Wellington Gqoba
- Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
- Enoch Sontonga
- St John Page Yako
References※
- ^ Beningfield, Jennifer (2006). The Frightened Land: Land, Landscape and Politics in South Africa in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. pp. 145–46. ISBN 9781134213535.
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