For the music album, see Imbongi (Ladysmith Black Mambazo album).
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An imbongi (plural iimbongi), or a Xhosa Praise Poet, is a member of the Xhosa community who performs ceremonial activities at important events. An imbongi is traditionally a male who recites emotive poetry, sings, explains family relationships, re-tells historical events, and comments on current affairs
An imbongi (plural iimbongi), or a Xhosa Praise Poet, is a member of the Xhosa community who performs ceremonial activities at important events. An imbongi...
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a South African male choral group singing in the local vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube. They became known internationally...
Zinyuse Mbombini Molteno Sihele, Xhosa Councillor and national poet ("imbongi"). Nceba Hlangadala Clarkebury on the banks of Mbhashe River was home to...
Utopia, UDon Jadu in 1929. Mqhayi was known as ‘Imbongi yakwaGompo’ (the poet of Gompo) and later ‘Imbongi yesizwe’ (the poet of the nation). A youthful...
element in the life of the people, and that while not everyone can have an "imbongi-public poet", everyone practices izibongo one way or another, since "izibongo...
Illiterate Heart won the 2002 PEN Open Book Award. In 2002, she was awarded the Imbongi Yesizwe Poetry International Award. She was the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished...
producer West Nkosi. The group sold over 40,000 copies of their first album Imbongi. and continued to do so through other recordings. In 1976, he became a...
Freedom-to-Write Award Prince Claus Award for Literature & Culture 2002 Imbongi Yesizwe Poetry International Award 2005 "Blooding" in StoryQuarterly Pushcart...
Entertainment. The company won the prestigious 2010 Cape Film Commission Imbongi trophies in both Training & Development and Animation. "Don't feed the...
contributing to traditional music. She was a Seventh-day Adventist member. As imbongi (praise singer) she transcended the boundaries of this role, which was...
foreign powers. Mthwakazi has a long history of diverse cultures and arts. Imbongi (poets) began poetically describing the wonderful social structure of Mthwakazi...
Mhlophe only began to think of storytelling as a career after meeting an Imbongi, one of the legendary poets of African folklore, and after encouragement...
2 June 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2020. "Welcome to Albert Nyathi and Imbongi's official homepage". Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. Retrieved...
of respect for their ritual significance. Musical bow Nofinishi Dywili Imbongi (Xhosa praise poet) Kalumbu of Zambia and Zimbabwe Berimbau of Brazil Malunga...
doi:10.1162/afar_a_00445. S2CID 59413429. Kaschula, Russell H (1999). "Imbongi And Griot: Toward A Comparative Analysis Of Oral Poetics In Southern And...
(1897–1900, 1906–09) and a writer for the newspaper under the pseudonym of "Imbongi Yakwo Gompo" (The Gompo Poet). Izwi Labantu's most important political...
concentrate and appreciate the rhythmic aspects of the poetry. Z. D. Mangoaela Imbongi South African literature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a34o3LUMToo https://www...
University. Xhosa music Amampondo Uhadi musical bow Xhosa praise poet (imbongi) Dave Dargie. SAMUS: South African Music Studies, "The redoubtable Nofinishi...
former Transkei. Her father, Daniel Boto, was of royal descent and an Imbongi for the royal court. He had fifteen children from his first marriage. After...
catalogue number Year UK chart position Amabutho Gallo (Motella BL 14) 1973 Imbongi Gallo (Motella BL 18) 1973 Ufakazi Yibheshu featuring Empangeni Home Tigers...
Sihele) was a Xhosa Councillor and warrior, as well as the national poet ("imbongi") and cultural custodian of the abaThembu people of South Africa during...
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