JOHANNESBURG - In the mid-1800s, a prophecy revealed by a Xhosa prophet, named Nongqawuse ultimately led to the slaughter of hundred of thousands of cattle. The story told was tha ...

Xhosa is known affectionately as the "click click language." — -- The "Black Panther" movie is winning attention for breaking Hollywood norms through its almost entirely black cast and crew ...

The Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856-7 cannot be explained as a superstitious 'pagan reaction' to the intrusion of colonial rule and Christian civilization. It owes its peculiar form to the ...

Having accepted the advice of Xhosa prophet Makhanda ka Nxele that the bullets of the white defenders would change into water and not harm them, the attackers lose 1 000 men to the defenders’ 3.

Research in African Literatures, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Winter, 2007), pp. 87-110 (24 pages) The first novel in the Xhosa language, USamson, written by the greatest figure in the history of Xhosa literature, ...

The final production in the Olney Theatre Center’s Potomac Theatre Festival, Translations of Xhosa, opens tonight. Produced in association with the Boston University School of Theatre Arts, this ...

Analysis - South Africa has 12 official languages. The two most dominant are isiZulu and isiXhosa. While the Zulu and Xhosa people share a rich common history, they have also found themselves ...