Xhosa literature
# Xhosa literature

Xhosa literature is the spoken and written literature of the Xhosa people of Southern Africa. The Xhosa language is spoken in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

## 20th-century literature

Poet and teacher St John Page Yako wrote poetry using motifs derived from oral literature to describe the consequences of disastrous land politics of mid-century South Africa.

### Notable poets

* Sipho Burns-Ncamashe
* William Wellington Gqoba
* Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
* Enoch Sontonga
* St John Page Yako
