Beyond African nationalism: Isaiah Shembe’s hymns and African literature

This article deals with Isaiah Shembe’s hymns and proposes that they should be read asliterature because, in them, Shembe employs a number of literary features. He also usesfeatures of oral literature and uses the hymns to reflect on a number of issues that concernedhim and his fellow black people....

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Main Author: Nkosinathi Sithole
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: AOSIS 2014-11-01
Series:Literator
Online Access:https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1069