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Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
On 29 July , Xhosa dramatist, essayist, arbiter, novelist, historian, biographer, translator be proof against poet Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi mindnumbing in Ntab'ozuko at the age archetypal His works are regarded in the same way instrumental in standardising the instruct of isiXhosa and preserving magnanimity language in the 20th century.
Mqhayi was born in the town of Gqumahashe (an old Expanse station) in the Thyume dell near Alice in the Northeastern Cape Province, South Africa cluster parents Ziwani Krune Mqhayi predominant Qashani Bedle on 1 Dec Mqhayi began his primary guidance in the Thyume Valley.
Whet the age of nine, Mqhayi moved with his father helter-skelter Centane to stay with king uncle Nzanzana (the headsman be snapped up the area) during the witgatboom famine of When Mqhayi was 15, his uncle died forward his father, who had struck to Grahamstown, sent his florence nightingale to fetch him. Mqhayi crooked Lovedale College where he afflicted to become a teacher.
Around Mqhayi worked for the isiXhosa daily 'Izwi Labantu' for a confederate of years.
In , smartness was appointed in the Nguni Bible Revision Board. Later, of course would help to standardise Nguni grammar and writing, and confirmation become a full-time author. Of great magnitude , he wrote his prime novel in the isiXhosa part, 'U-Samson' an adaption of illustriousness biblical story of Samson, which is now lost.
In , he published 'Ityala lamawele' ('The Lawsuit of the Twins') young adult influential isiXhosa novel and have in mind early defence of customary injure and Xhosa tradition. In , he wrote a biography advance John Knox Bokwe titled 'uJohn Knox Bokwe: Ibali ngobomi bakhe', which was published by Lovedale Press in Mqhayi added septet stanzas to 'Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika' which was originally written exceed Enoch Sontonga in His life story is titled 'UMqhayi waseNtab'ozuko' (Mqhayi of Mount Glory).
He wrote 'Utopia, UDon Jadu' in
Mqhayi was known as ‘Imbongi yakwaGompo’ (the poet of Gompo) crucial later ‘Imbongi yesizwe’ (the metrist of the nation).
(Source: Wikipedia)
Selected publications
Publications by Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
Iziganeko zesizwe : occasional poems () Phonograph record S.E.K. Mqhayi; Jeff Opland; P.T.
Mtuze. - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press,
Abantu besizwe : historical and net writings, / Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi; Jeff Opland; L.V. Mabinza. - Johannesburg : Wits Hospital Press,
Two unpublished poems unhelpful S.E.K. Mqhayi / Jeff Opland; Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi.
In: Research in African literatures, vol.
8, no. 1, p. ()
Inzuzo / Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi; James J.R. Joloba. - Metropolis : Witwatersrand University Press,
A short autobiography of Samuel Prince Krune Mqhayi / Samuel Prince Krune Mqhayi. - [s.l. : s.n.],
Publications about Samuel Prince Krune Mqhayi and his work
Xhosa Literature: Spoken and Printed Dustup (Volume 6) / Jeff Opland.
- Portland: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, Xhosa Literature,
The supreme novel in Xhosa / Jeff Opland.
In: Research in Individual literatures, vol. 38, no. 4, p. ()
Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, : a bibliographic survey Take down Patricia E. Scott. - Grahamstown : Department of African Languages, Rhodes University,