Xhosa literature

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.[1]

Notable poets

• Sipho Burns-Ncamashe
• William Wellington Gqoba
• Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
• Enoch Sontonga
• St John Page Yako

See also

References

1. Beningfield, Jennifer (2006). The Frightened Land: Land, Landscape and Politics in South Africa in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. pp. 145–46. ISBN 9781134213535.