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- Izibongo is a genre of oral literature among various Bantu peoples of Southern Africa, including the Zulu and the Xhosa. While it is often considered to...
- tribal spirituality. Examples include Oriki amongst the Yoruba people, Isibongo amongst the Zulu people, and Iziduko amongst the Xhosa people. The custom...
- communities and clans (also called the isizwe people or nation, or called isibongo, referring to their clan or family name). Nguni communities had migrated...
- mimosa (thorn) trees in the area. 114 Trenance 115 Tshabalala This is the "isibongo" or praise name for Lobengula's mother, Fulata, who was of Swazi extraction...
- Eso's descent from the famous Eso Ikoyi warriors of the medieval period. Isibongo, a similar concept amongst the Bantu of Southern Africa. Abraham 1962,...
- well as five primary schools namely, Sifisesihle, Zamuthule, Qhamukile, Isibongo and Nhlanhleni. Activities include: annual dog show; Zulu Mpophomeni Tourism...
- 'friends' belong to class 2, characterised by the prefix aba-, whereas isíbongo, 'surname' and isíhlahla, 'tree' belong to class 7, characterised by the...
- opposed to pictorial in nature. Praise poetry traditions such as Isiduko and Isibongo provided peoples such as the Zulus and the Xhosas with symbolic capital...
- was himself at the heart of this movement as a revivalist of the Zulu isibongo poetic tradition. Qabula took these traditional poetic forms and injected...