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100 - Lomzi Wakona na Sawubizana? Did we invite this nation of theirs?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2019

Jeff Opland
Affiliation:
University of South Africa
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Listen, these are the words of the prophet Ntsikana. They were written down for our instruction. Ntsikana was asking God if we invited this nation of people from overseas to come here to Africa. And if we invited this mighty money of theirs. I Nontsizi am going to interpret Ntsikana as I understand him. I don't know the interpretation of others. In very truth, this nation of theirs from overseas has completely killed Africa. In very truth, this money of theirs has bought the rights of our firstborn like a boiled mash of maize and lentils. It betrays the people of the nation of Africa, it buys the daughters of her nations, it even buys those who contrive the death of our nation. It is the fountain of everything foul. Ntsikana was appealing to God as someone speaking through the spirit. Peace! Listen again! God was testing us through the whites, because for ages past he is the hunting party hunting souls. He does this to find out what hope resides in any one person. Furthermore, it is by God's design that every single nation in Africa should be here, because for ages past he forms one flock from diverse sheep, wanting all these flocks to bend to his truth. So God's truth is present in Africa alone. That is what has formed one flock of all these nations here, for Jesus himself was placed beyond Herod's power when he was smuggled into Africa. So listen if you seek this truth.

Editor, thanks for the poets’ column.

I'm still here, a young man and no poet.

I just like to be on top, Editor.

Oi! Clubs are at hand but I fight with lightning.

This nation rests on the law of the bible,

traitors must forfeit their lives.

Turncoats wound it, rip out its lifeblood:

our power wanes, and we're ripe for invasion.

Did we invite this nation of theirs?

Did we invite their mighty money?

When we entered the white man's cities

we drank the brews of foreign gods.

Did we invite this nation of theirs?

Maker, Ntsikana didn't ask you

about the hundreds of thousands killed in Africa:

we appeal to you for them.

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Nation's Bounty
The Xhosa Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho
, pp. 432 - 437
Publisher: Wits University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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