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Nontsizi Mgqwetho

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

Works

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

    Nontsizi Mgqwetho Wikipedia