William Wellington Gqoba

William Wellington Gqoba (born 1840, near Gaga, Cape Colony [now in South Africa]—died April 26, 1888) was a poet, philologist, and journalist. He was a dominant literary figure among 19th-century Bantu writers, whose poetry reflects the effects of missionaries and education on the Bantu people. During his short career Gqoba pursued a number of trades: wagonmaker, clerk, teacher, translator of Xhosa and English, and pastor. During 1884–88 he was editor of Isigidimi samaXhosa (The Xhosa...