Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi

Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi

Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi (S. E. K. Mqhayi, December 1, 1875–July 29, 1945) was a Xhosa poet and historian.

He was born in the Cape Province, South Africa to a Christian family. At the Lovedale institution he was trained as a teacher. In addition to teaching and helping to edit journals in the Xhosa language, he was appointed to the Xhosa Bible Revision Board in 1905. Later he would help to standardize Xhosa grammar and writing, and then become a full-time author. [cite web
last=Senekal | first=B. A.
url=http://www.ned.univie.ac.at/lic/autor.asp?paras=/lg;1/aut_id;30171/
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Between 1896 and 1944 he was a journalist and wrote for Xhosa newspapers. In 1907 he wrote what is considered by some to be the first novel in the Xhosa language, "U-Samson". His autobiography is titled, "UMghayi waseNtab'ozuko" (Mghayi of Mount Glory). [cite web
last=Opland | first=Jeff | date=December 22, 2007
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title=The first novel in Xhosa.(S.E.K. Mqhayi' USamson)
publisher=Indiana University Press
accessdate=2006-08-10 ] In 1929 he wrote "Utopia, UDon Jadu". He was the recipient of the May Ester Bedford Prize for Bantu literature in 1935. [cite book
first=Karin | last=Barber | year=2006
title=Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self
publisher=Indiana University Press
isbn=0253347297 ]

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*cite web
date=October 3, 2007
url=http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2007/10/03/sek-mqhayi-a-call-to-arms/
title=S.E.K. MQHAYI - A CALL TO ARMS
publisher=Kagablog
accessdate=2008-04-19


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