�Modern prophets, produce a new bible�: Christianity, Africanness and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho
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2008
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Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN
Abstract
In this article I consider how one might approach the apparently singular figure of Nontsizi
Mgqwetho, a Xhosa woman who produced an extraordinary series of Christian izibongo
in newspapers in the 1920s: through what kind of language, from what critical perspective,
might one think and write about her? There have been various attempts to write about
Mgqwetho, and there are certain obvious possibilities in terms of approach and methodology,
which I explore briefly, but I want to suggest a mode of reading which provides a richer,
more engaged and more engaging understanding � one which reads with and through, rather
than onto or against, her African Christian articulations.
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Nontsizi Mgqwetho, Xhosa woman, Christian izibongo, African christianity
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Brown, D. (2008). �Modern prophets, produce a new bible�: Christianity, Africanness and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 20(2): 77-91