Xhosan

Due to the mystic's promise, the Xhosan army was ordered into harm's way and engaged the British colonial army in a rare pitched battle.

Larry Beinhart: The God Series, Part III -- Belief & False Beliefs

The British, lined-up in formation, opened a withering fire with their muskets and artillery and decimated the Xhosan ranks, led personally by Nxele.

Larry Beinhart: The God Series, Part III -- Belief & False Beliefs

The Xhosan prophet, Nxele, had promised the Xhosan king, the Ndlambe, the ability to turn white men's bullets to water.

Larry Beinhart: The God Series, Part III -- Belief & False Beliefs

In April 1819, the British Colony on the Cape, Grahamstown, was menaced by a large Xhosan army.

Larry Beinhart: The God Series, Part III -- Belief & False Beliefs

Yet, suppose, for example, that a South African of mostly Dutch ancestry and a South African of mostly Xhosan ancestry share certain heritable physical characteristics.

Intersections Between Analytic and Continental Feminism

'De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da': Is this not the identical cadence and thrust of "di-ree-ree-ree di-ra-ra-ra" chanted by Xhosan witchdoctors to voice their frustrations at the inadequacies of spoken language?

Zenyatta Mondatta

I ran back to the phonogram and replayed the record, and there they were: the DE DO DO DO number's structure is precisely the same as that of an ancient Xhosan nursery rhyme, with a philosophical twist stolen from Gertrude Stein ( "A rose is a rose ...") or perhaps Dylan Thomas or Allen Ginsberg.

Zenyatta Mondatta

Prior to demonstrating her beautiful singing voice (in Xhosan too) she mentioned her work in promoting wine to the rising black middle class.

thecookscottage

I heard the next Jason Statham movie is going to have the audio from a Xhosan Madsen poetry reading in its next movie trailer because it’s getting too expensive to use "Click Click Boom" all the time.

THE POETRY OF MICHAEL MADSEN