" The South African anthropologist, Dr M. Mabona, uses the main title of this book as a convenient platform to launch an investigation into the roots of Xhosa culture and history.

In this innovative, richly researched, and splendidly written biography, Roger S. Levine reclaims Tzatzoe's lost story and analyzes his contributions to, and experiences with, the turbulent colonial world to argue for the crucial role of ...

First published by Wits University Press in the 1940s, the series provided a voice for the voiceless and celebrated African culture, history and heritage.

This is exactly what happened to the author, a Xhosa native raised in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. This book is an exploration of identity, ancestry, and the surprising complexities of the Xhosa nation.

This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.

The texts and translations in this book are a valuable and attractive addition to the record, ranging as they do from nineteenth-century examples to late twentieth-century praises for Joe Slovo, F.W. de Klerk, the South African soccer squad ...

This volume establishes the background to this poetic re-emergence, preserving and transmitting the voice of the Xhosa poet.