Xhosa Chiefs

This is a special topic topic containing a google chart diagram of the genealogy of the xhosa chiefs i am trying to put together.

Xhosa chiefs. Kǁʰɔ ːsa anglicized as kosa are a bantu ethnic group from southern africa whose homeland is primarily within the modern day eastern cape there is a small but significant xhosa speaking community in zimbabwe and their language isixhosa is recognised as a national language. It should be promoted said cde ncube. Intsomi folktales proverbs and isibongo praise poems are told in dramatic and creative ways. The xhosa nation has two independent kingships with the gcaleka xhosa being the senior branch as the great house of king phalo katshiwo and the rharhabe xhosa the junior branch as the right hand house of king phalo katshiwo.

The supreme being among the xhosa is called uthixo or uqamata. The xhosa people have two paramount chiefs of the two major subdivisions of the tribe i e. Historians have suggested that xhosa and tshawe were probably the first xhosa kings or paramount supreme chiefs. Another tradition stresses the essential unity of the xhosa speaking people by proclaiming that all the xhosa subgroups are descendants of one ancestor tshawe.

The xhosa were pressed into highland areas where the terrain offered some defence. Zanesizwe king of the amarharhabe xhosa. Isixhosa is one of the 16 officially recognised languages in zimbabwe hence it is a vehicle that transmits xhosa culture and traditions. Zilimbola chief of amagwali alice.

This dislocated xhosa clans and disrupted the traditional lineage family homesteads and social system. Paramount chief king maxhob ayakhawuleza sandile aah. I corrected some of the spellings of the xhosa chief names. He said as the ministry responsible for promotion and preservation of culture they encouraged the safeguarding of male circumcision as one of the trademark practices in isixhosa intangible cultural heritage.

It is based on the dutch genealogist anthony stokvis s 1855 1924 genealogical diagram compiled in 1889. Xhosa tradition is rich in creative verbal expression. List of xhosa chiefs from wikipedia the free encyclopedia the xhosa nation has two independent kingships with the jwara xhosa being the senior branch as the great house of king jwara and the mayaras xhosa the junior branch as the right hand house of king jwara. Historians have suggested that xhosa and tshawe were probably the first xhosa kings or paramount supreme chiefs.

For example during the epidemic of bovine lung sickness and the cattle killing episode which followed it in 1856 7 some xhosa chiefs supported the paramount chief sarhili s call which was based on the millennial prophecies of mhlakaza and nongqawuse to destroy all cattle and grain but others refused to do so. Xhosa people ˈ k ɔː s ə ˈ k oʊ s ə. Dumehleli regent of the amagcaleka xhosas nqadu great place willowvale king jonguxolo sandile aa. Paramount chief king mzikayise sigcawu aah.

In the 1830s and 1840s after major battles the british stripped the xhosa chiefs of effective power.