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William Wellington Gqoba: Vol 1: Opland collection of Xhosa Literature - Isizwe Esinembali Xhosa histories and poetry (1873-1888) (Paperback)
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William Wellington Gqoba: Vol 1: Opland collection of Xhosa Literature - Isizwe Esinembali Xhosa histories and poetry (1873-1888) (Paperback)
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William Wellington Gqoba (1840–88) was prominent among the
African intellectuals emerging in the Eastern Cape region of South
Africa towards the end of the nineteenth century. By trade he was a
wagonmaker, licensed preacher of the Free church of Scotland,
teacher, historian, poet, folklorist and editor. For much of his
brief life he served on mission stations as a catechist, and ended
his career as editor of the Lovedale newspaper Isigidimi sama-Xosa,
to which he contrived to contribute subversive poetry outspokenly
critical of Western education, the European administration of black
people and the discrimination suffered by colonised blacks. Gqoba
fashioned the figure of the Xhosa man of letters. Unrivalled in his
time in the generic range of his writing, he was the author of
letters, anecdotes, expositions of proverbs, histories and poetry,
including two poems in the form of debates that stood for over
fifty years as the longest poems in the Xhosa language. This book
assembles and translates into English all of William Wellington
Gqoba’s clearly identifiable writings. They offer an insider’s
perspective on an African nation in transition, adapting
uncomfortably to Western mores and morality, seeking to affirm its
identity by drawing on its past, standing on the brink of
mobilisation to resist white control and to construct its social,
political and religious independence of European colonialism.
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