Nontsizi Mgqwetho

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

References

1. Opland, Jeff (2003). "Nontsizi Mgqwetho, Listen, Compatriots!". In Daymond, Margaret J. (ed.). Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region. Feminist Press at CUNY. pp. 180–1. ISBN 978-1-55861-407-9.
2. Thulani Sokombela, Looking Back and Looking Ahead: the Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho

Further reading

• Duncan Brown, 'My Pen is the Tongue of a Skilful Poet: African-Christian identity and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgwetho', English in Africa 31.1 (2004), pp. 23–58

External links

• The poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho