Nontsizi Mgqwetho Explained

Nontsizi Mgqwetho (fl. 1920s) was a South African poet, "the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa".^[1] Her poems were published in Umteteli wa Bantu, a multilingual weekly Johannesburg newspaper established in 1920.^[2]

Works

• (ed. and transl. Jeff Opland) The Nation’s Bounty - The Xhosa Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho, Wits University Press, 2007

Further reading

• Duncan Brown, (2004) 'My Pen is the Tongue of a Skilful Poet: African-Christian identity and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgwetho', English in Africa 31.1, pp. 23–58
• Athambile Masola, (2018) 'The Politics of the 1920s Black Press: Charlotte Maxeke's and Nontsizi Mgqwetho's Critique of Congress. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, 13:2 pp 59–76, DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2018.1522933 .
• Thulani Nxasana (2016). “Nontsizi Mgqwetho’s The Nation’s Bounty: A Prophetic Voice towards an African Literary Theory.’’ PhD diss., Rhodes University http://hdl.handle.net/10962/4547
• Athambile Masola. (2016) Asinakuthula umhlab’ubolile: the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho https://thoughtleader.co.za/asinakuthula-umhlabubolile-the-poetry-of-nontsizi-mgqwetho/
• Isabel Hofmeyr and Ntantala-Jordan, Phyllis (2007) Nation's Bounty: The Xhosa Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho. NYU Press .
• Jeff Opland (2008). "OF XHOSA LITERATURE: THE CASE OF NONTSIZI MGQWETHO." Beyond the Language Issue: The Production, Mediation and Reception of Creative Writing in African Languages: Selected Papers from the 8th International Janheinz Jahn Sumposium, Mainz 2004 19 (2008): 119.
• P Bikitisha, (2018) 'The poet who rouses the court and censures the king': An examination of the political praxis of Nontsizi Mgqwetho. In partial fulfilment of a BA Honours in Historical Studies. University of Cape Town.

External links

• The poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho

Notes and References

1. Book: Opland, Jeff. Daymond, Margaret J.. Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region. https://books.google.com/books?id=MXJfTLB4XvcC&pg=PA180. 2003. Feminist Press at CUNY. 978-1-55861-407-9. 180–1. Nontsizi Mgqwetho, Listen, Compatriots!.
2. Thulani Sokombela, Looking Back and Looking Ahead: the Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho