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Grahamstown
Grahamstown city (1991 pop. 19,783), Eastern Cape, SE South Africa. It manufactures pottery and is the commercial center for a rich agricultural region. Founded in 1819 as a military post on Xhosa land, the Grahamstown area was the site of repeated conflict in the early 19th cent. Rhodes Univ. (190... Read more
Ciskei
Ciskei , former black "homeland" and nominal republic, SE South Africa. Surrounded by the Cape Province (in the portion that is now Eastern Cape) of South Africa, it consisted of two parcels of land, the larger one bordering the Indian Ocean to the southeast. The capital was Bisho. Ciskei was la... Read more
Cape Province
Cape Province former province, S South Africa. Under the South African constitution of 1994 it was divided into Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape, and part of a fourth province, North West. The former capital and largest city was Cape Town (now the capital of Western Cape). Other cities i... Read more
Transkei
Transkei , former black "homeland" and nominal republic, E South Africa. Transkei was bounded by the Great Kei River on the south, by the Indian Ocean on the east, by Natal on the north, and by Lesotho on the northwest. The capital and main city was Umtata. Part of the Drakensberg Range was... Read more
Bantu languages
Bantu languages group of African languages forming a subdivision of the Benue-Niger division of the Niger-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian language family (see African languages ). Bantu contains hundreds of languages that are spoken by 120 million Africans in the Congo Basin, Angola, the Rep... Read more
Zululand
Zululand , historic region and home of the Zulus, c.10,000 sq mi (25,900 sq km), NE KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Zululand is bordered by the Indian Ocean on the east, by Mozambique on the north, and by Swaziland on the west. The terrain rises from a low coastal plain to the foothills of the Drakensb... Read more
South Africa
South Africa Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. It borders on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, on Namibia in the northwest, on Botswana and Zimbabwe in the north, on Mozambique and Swaziland i... Read more
apartheid
apartheid [Afrik.,=apartness], system of racial segregation peculiar to the Republic of South Africa, the legal basis of which was largely repealed in 1991-92. History Racial segregation and the supremacy of whites had been traditionally accepted in South Africa prior to 1948, but in the ... Read more
Lesotho
Lesotho , officially Kingdom of Lesotho, kingdom (2005 est. pop. 1,867,000), 11,720 sq mi (30,355 sq km), S Africa. It is an enclave within the Republic of South Africa. Maseru is the capital and largest city. Land and People The Drakensberg range occupies the eastern part of the country... Read more
African languages
African languages geographic rather than linguistic classification of languages spoken on the African continent. Historically the term refers to the languages of sub-Saharan Africa, which do not belong to a single family, but are divided among several distinct linguistic stocks. It is estimated tha... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Xhosa"

Xhosa
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures Xhosa PRONUNCIATION: KOH-suh LOCATION: South...areas) POPULATION: 6 million LANGUAGE: Xhosa (Bantu) RELIGION: Traditional beliefs...Christianity 1 • INTRODUCTION The word Xhosa refers to a people and a language of South...
Xhosa language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Xhosa language see Bantu languages .
Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...novelist and poet who excelled in the Xhosa praise-poem. Samuel Mqhayi was born on Dec. 1, 1875, among the Xhosa of Cape Province (South Africa). He...writing career by contributing to various Xhosa newspapers and by writing a story entitled...
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...reincorporated into the Republic of South Africa in 1994), among the Xhosa-speaking section of the Southern Nguni people. His family...outlook was formed in his Transkei youth under the influence of Xhosa historical traditions and the millenarian movement of Wellington...
Ciskei
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...government and cultural preservation. Ciskei was designated for Xhosa-speaking people. In 1961, Ciskei became a separate administrative...in 1972 was declared "self-governing." During the 1970s Xhosa-speaking people were relocated to the homeland. In 1981...
Cape Province
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1779 the first of numerous frontier wars (continuing until 1877) between Europeans and the Xhosa (a Bantu-speaking people) erupted. These Xhosa Wars were mainly over land and cattle. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars...
South Africa
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...x2026; 100 ■ ENGLISH … 105 ■ XHOSA … 110 ■ ZULU … 117 The people...includes a large number of groups. Among the largest are the Xhosa numbering 5.6 million, the Zulu (5.3 million), and the...
Miriam Makeba
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...one. Makeba's father, a schoolteacher and member of the Xhosa tribe, could only choose between two places for his family...she listened to and picked up the traditional songs of the Xhosa and Zulu dialects. And beyond the music of her native people...
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu. In the following discussion, South African English...Competent bilinguals (for example, in English and Dutch, or Xhosa and English) have been numerous and influential, and conditions...
BANTU
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Tswana in BOTSWANA and South Africa, Siswati in SWAZILAND , and Xhosa and Zulu in South Africa. The most widely used Bantu language...ikhalenda calendar, ukheroti carrot, ukholiflawa cauliflower; Xhosa ibhentshi bench, ikati cat, ukubhaptiza to baptise. See AFRICAN...

Dictionary entries related to "Xhosa"

Xhosa Wars
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Xhosa Wars (1779–1879) The wars between the Xhosa people and Dutch and British colonists along the east coast...Kei rivers. From 1811 the policy of clearing the land of Xhosa people to make way for Europeans began and, following...
Xhosa
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English Xho·sa / ˈkōsə; ˈ kh ō- / • n. ( pl. same or -sas ) 1. a member of a South African people traditionally living in the Eastern Cape Province. They form the second largest ethnic group in South Africa after the Zulus. 2. the Nguni language of this people.
South Africa
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...known as trekboers , moved inland and encountered the Xhosa people, who had a settled, agricultural society...century frontier wars had broken out between the Xhosa and the Boers (the XHOSA WARS ). Britain established a colony in 1806 and...
Nguni
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...people came into conflict with European settlers: the British in the Cape Colony moved into the lands of the Xhosa, precipitating the XHOSA WARS ; Boer, and later British, settlers in Natal clashed with the Zulus. Urbanization during the 20th...
van der Kemp, Johannes Theodorus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...the LMS to South Africa in 1799. His preaching was probably heard by Ntsikana ( c. 1760–1820), the visionary Xhosa prophet. Van der Kemp finally settled among the Khoi (Hottentots, later known as ‘Cape Coloured’...
Pretorius, Andries (Wilhelmus Jacobus)
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Andries (Wilhelmus Jacobus) (1798–1853) Boer leader and general. After several frontier campaigns against the Xhosa he took part in the GREAT TREK , and became commandant-general of the Boers after Piet Retief's murder (1838). He defeated...
Inkatha Freedom Party
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...leadership of Chief Mangosuthu BUTHELEZI . The party was founded as the Inkatha movement by Buthelezi in 1975 to counter the Xhosa-dominated AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC). Unlike the ANC, which sought to overthrow the apartheid system through armed...
Order of Ethiopia
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Order of Ethiopia. A semi-independent, mainly Xhosa, section within the Anglican Church in S. Africa. James M. Dwane (1851–1916), an ordained Methodist minister...
Bantu homelands
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...envisaged eventual “independence”. This was in fact granted to four of the homelands: Transkei, chiefly Xhosa people, in 1976; Bophuthatswana, chiefly Tswana, in 1977; Venda in 1979; and Ciskei in 1981. The populations of these...
Tutu, Right Revd Desmond Mpilo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Right Revd Desmond Mpilo (b. 7 Oct. 1931). Archbishop of Cape Town 1986–96 Born in the Transvaal of mixed Xhosa and Tswana descent, he was ordained an Anglican priest in 1961. He went to Britain for further studies in 1962, receiving...

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Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery.(Book review)
Magazine article from: African Studies Quarterly; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the...and brings together the fruits of a long publishing career on Xhosa ritual, oratory, and beer. Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the...
Echoes of orality in Christian Xhosa songs.
Magazine article from: Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...article is an attempt to investigate and explore certain patterns in traditional Christian Xhosa songs as found in Xhosa music. The corpus of contemporary Xhosa music is vast, and difficult to explore properly without recognising the patterns of traditional...
Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/5/1992; 700+ words ; ...between British colonists and the powerful Xhosa tribe, the battleground is now South...European vessels to land on the Cape) to Xhosa cattle-breeding practices to the funeral of Steve Biko, a modern-day Xhosa leader. Aside from the usual English...
Xhosa Poets and Poetry
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; Xhosa Poets and Poetry. By Jeff Opland. (Cape...written or printed literature on the poetics of Xhosa literary imagination. The fundamental theme...or griot) have affected the form of the Xhosa poetic tradition. Appropriately enough...
Is royalty still relevant? The Xhosa Queen Mother's funeral was largely ignored by her subjects, writes Tom Hiney.(Life)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 7/16/2006; 700+ words ; ...all over southern Africa laughed at the Xhosa prince's joke as they sat gathered this...funeral of Nolizwe Sandile, the Zulu-born Xhosa Queen Mother. Wailing was not high on...kilometres away at the Wimpy restaurant, a Xhosa waitress didn't know anything about a...
Festival toasts Xhosa culture.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa); 11/7/2006; 700+ words ; ...week-long line-up of the second annual Xhosa Festival unfolding in Langa township next...deceased diva Brenda Fassie, who shares a Xhosa heritage with powerful political minds...Mbeki. Apart from performance arts, a Xhosa symbols exhibition will be on show to aid...
Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...AFRICA'S CREATION AND THE TRAGEDY OF THE XHOSA PEOPLE Noel Mosteft Jonathan Cape 1355pp...only to sympathise with but to idealise Xhosa society. When he met Steve Biko, he felt...on the eastern Cape frontier between the Xhosa people and the advance of European settlement...
Wauchope's writings: a treasure house of the Xhosa people's glorious past.(Dispatches)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 2/15/2009; 700+ words ; ...history, folklore, linguistics, penetrating studies of Xhosa proverbs, almost all translated from the Xhosa, as are the 16 poems by Abner Nyamende. Most were published in Xhosa newspapers and Lovedale's Christian Express. How sad that...
Intertextuality shapes the poetry of Xhosa poets/Intertekstualiteit vorm die poesie van Xhosadigters.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...of traditional praises. In many praises Xhosa poets draw terminology from Biblical texts...the boundaries between Christianity and Xhosa poetry. Having said that, the aim of...article is to uncover the interplay between Xhosa traditional poems and Christianity. To...
Cultural heritage in the work of two Xhosa-speaking ceramic artists.(Siziwe Sotewu, Gcinikhaya Dase)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: African Arts; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; As Xhosa-speaking artists working with clay (1...essentialization (3) or valorization of Xhosa-speakers' experiences and dilemmas at...both born in the Eastern Cape and both speak Xhosa, and we also share a hope that by bringing...