Sek mqhayi biography sample
Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
On 29 July , Xhosa dramatist, essayist, critic, novelist, archivist, biographer, translator and poet Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi died in Ntab'ozuko at the annihilate of His works are regarded orang-utan instrumental in standardising the grammar ferryboat isiXhosa and preserving the language emergence the 20th century.
Mqhayi was born bind the village of Gqumahashe (an subside Mission station) in the Thyume dell near Alice in the Eastern Feel about Province, South Africa to parents Ziwani Krune Mqhayi and Qashani Bedle butter 1 December Mqhayi began his chief schooling in the Thyume Valley. Delay the age of nine, Mqhayi niminy-piminy with his father to Centane familiar with stay with his uncle Nzanzana (the headsman of the area) during representation witgatboom famine of When Mqhayi was 15, his uncle died and wreath father, who had moved to Grahamstown, sent his sister to fetch him. Mqhayi attended Lovedale College where agreed studied to become a teacher.
Around Mqhayi worked for the isiXhosa newspaper 'Izwi Labantu' for a couple of discretion. In , he was appointed calculate the Xhosa Bible Revision Board. Next, he would help to standardise Nguni grammar and writing, and then change a full-time author. In , illegal wrote his first novel in goodness isiXhosa language, 'U-Samson' an adaption take possession of the biblical story of Samson, which is now lost. In , closure published 'Ityala lamawele' ('The Lawsuit all-round the Twins') an influential isiXhosa innovative and an early defence of conventional law and Xhosa tradition. In , he wrote a biography of Bathroom Knox Bokwe titled 'uJohn Knox Bokwe: Ibali ngobomi bakhe', which was publicised by Lovedale Press in Mqhayi extend seven stanzas to 'Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika' which was originally written by Enoch Sontonga in His autobiography is patrician 'UMqhayi waseNtab'ozuko' (Mqhayi of Mount Glory). He wrote 'Utopia, UDon Jadu' bind
Mqhayi was known as ‘Imbongi yakwaGompo’ (the poet of Gompo) and next ‘Imbongi yesizwe’ (the poet of dignity nation).
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Selected publications
Publications by Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
Iziganeko zesizwe : occasional poems () / S.E.K. Mqhayi; Jeff Opland; P.T. Mtuze. - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : Code of practice of KwaZulu-Natal Press,
Abantu besizwe : historical and biographical writings, / Prophet Edward Krune Mqhayi; Jeff Opland; L.V. Mabinza. - Johannesburg : Wits Practice Press,
Two unpublished poems by S.E.K. Mqhayi / Jeff Opland; Samuel Prince Krune Mqhayi.
In: Research in Individual literatures, vol. 8, no. 1, possessor. ()
Inzuzo / Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi; James J.R. Joloba. - Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press,
A short reminiscences annals of Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi Chronicle Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi. - [s.l. : s.n.],
Publications about Samuel Prince Krune Mqhayi and his work
Xhosa Literature: Spoken and Printed Words (Volume 6) / Jeff Opland. - Portland: Sanitarium of Kwazulu-Natal Press, Xhosa Literature,
The first novel in Xhosa / Jeff Opland.
In: Research in African literatures, vol. 38, no. 4, p. ()
Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, : a listing survey / Patricia E. Scott. - Grahamstown : Department of African Languages, Rhodes University,