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With a printing press that he brought to Kuruman, Moffat translated several religious works into Setswana, including the gospels, a book of hymns, lessons in Biblical scripture, and The Pilgrim's Progress. [26] Moffat worked on a Setswana translation of the New Testament for 23 years, from 1817 to 1840. [27] He also published a Setswana ...
Sechele I a Motswasele "Rra Mokonopi" (1812–1892), also known as Setshele, was the ruler of the Kwêna people of Botswana.He was converted to Christianity by David Livingstone and in his role as ruler served as a missionary among his own and other African peoples.
It was occupied from the 15th to the 19th century CE and was the largest of several sizeable settlements inhabited by Setswana speakers before European arrival. Several circular stone-walled family compounds are spread out over an area of 10km long and 2km wide.
The works represent traditional writings from a wide array of groups, encompassing the Swahili, Yoruba, Zulu and other sources, and including seven original poems from Soyinka himself. [3] Michael Kelly of the University of Hull, Northumberside, criticizes the works in Poems of Black Africa for being not poetic in the way they treat themes of ...
Jazz was particularly important to Kgositsile's sense of black American culture and his own place in it. He saw John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, B. B. King, and many others in the jazz clubs of New York, and wrote to them and of them in his poems. Jazz was crucial to Kgositsile's most influential idea: his sense of a worldwide ...
Ditema tsa Dinoko (Sesotho for "Ditema syllabary"), also known as ditema tsa Sesotho, is a constructed writing system (specifically, a featural syllabary) for the siNtu or Southern Bantu languages (such as Sesotho, Setswana, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, SiSwati, SiPhuthi, Xitsonga, EMakhuwa, ChiNgoni, SiLozi, ChiShona and Tshivenḓa).
Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–1971) was a Motswana playwright and poet. He was born in Serowe and got his education in Tiger Kloof, Lovedale and Fort Hare University.A prolific author, he had his first book, a biography of Khama III, accepted for publication while still in high school at Lovedale.
1. Lefatshe leno la borrarona Re le abetswe ke Modimo Kwa ntle ga tshololo ya madi A re lebogeng, a re ipepleng A re lebogeng, a re ipepleng 2. Lefatshe leno la borrarona Re le abela matshelo a rona Re tla le fufulelwa Sethitho se fetoga madi, sethitho se fetoga madi 3. Lefasthe la kgomo le mabele Boswa jwa rona ka bosakhutleng Ramasedi a ledibele