Xhosa

How To Use Xhosa In A Sentence

• They also knew that castaways could be dangerous; the survivors of a Portuguese wreck 100 years earlier had horrified the Xhosa by turning to cannibalism.
• Mandela, South Africa's first black president, Afrikaner university workers in Afrikaans, Xhosa and English. ANC Daily News Briefing
• What Mr. Landes calls "tribal millennialism" is observable, he claims, in the case of the Xhosa in Africa, who in 1856 were persuaded by a young prophetic girl that their ancestors were returning to save them from the white man and to restore their cattle and crops to the great times of the past. Apocalypse Now And Then
• Xhosa speakers are patrilineal and have patronymic clans, but neither clans nor lineages have any ‘on the ground’ existence.
• However, it makes me sad to see our fellow brothers and sisters abort Xhosa and adopt other languages when they get into the limelight.
• The beverage is a traditional drink of Xhosa speaking people.
• She released many of her most famous hits there including “Pata Pata”, “The Click Song” (“Qongqothwane” in Xhosa), and “Malaika”. Miriam makeba | mama afrika « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
• Speaking in English, Xhosa and, to the amusement of the mainly-Afrikaans crowd of around 5,000, in Afrikaans, Mandela said freedom in South Africa will only gain its full meaning "as we succeed together in overcoming and inequalities of our past and in improving the lives of especially the poor. ANC Daily News Briefing
• For most of the morning the craft stalls on the wharf were visited by people buying curios - from fridge magnets to beaded traditional Xhosa garments and wood carvings.
• Bunyani spoke to him in Xhosa, her click speech stick-drumming the air. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES