Nongqawuse biography of williams

The extraordinary events and consequences that were unleashed by the vision of the sixteen-year old Xhosa prophetess Nongqawuse that resulted in the death of thousands and thousands of Xhosa people in 1857 represent the violent and irreconcialable clash between tradition and modernity which in actuality was the outcome of the forceful entrance of European modernity into African history, i.

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Nongqawuse poem

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e., the subjugation of African history by European history. The whole tragic episode and consequently the figure of the prophetess are best reconstructed in the form of a collage of texts drawn from the imagination of four major African intellectuals and writers: William W.

Gqoba (1840-88), Solom T. Plaatje (1879-1932), H. I. E. Dhlomo (1903-56), A. C. Jordan (1906-68). Jordan, eminent Xhosa scholar and great Xhosa novelist (Ingqumbo yeminyanya [1940, The Wrath of the Ancestral Spirits]), sets the context for this reconstruction with this passage from Towards an African Literature: The Emerge