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[edit]

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[edit]

References[edit]

^ 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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[1] 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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