The Xhosa Nation by Rémy

200 beautiful Xhosa baby names | Parent24   The Xhosa nation group   from South Africa mainly from Zimbabwe , they arrived South Afrca in the XVII century

This old ethnie speak the isiWhosa mainly , become a national language , but also speak english, zoulou and afrikaans. The Xhosa language is South Africa's second most populous language of South Africa and 
   live in a country name KwaXhosa. 

Now this group is aproximatly 8 million and many of them are Christian. 
Like tots of other ethnies   Xhosa have    lot of rituals mainly for wedding like 
  •  the"Ukuthwalwa" : To start off the procedures the male intending to marry goes through Ukuthwalwa which entails him choosing his future bride and making his intentions of marriage known
  • Or the "Isiduko":Following Ukuthwala, the man will then be in discussion with his parents or relatives to inform them of his choice in bride.
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    In the past this group was very poor because of a young teenager claimed that "the spirits had told her that the power of the Xhosas would be restored and the Whites expelled if the Xhosa people agreed to slaughter their whole herd, to burn their crops and to destroy their food reserves" but that never come and lot of amaXhosa  dies of hunger or make acts of canibalism.


Thembu-Xhosa, la culture de Nelson Mandela
We can find a lot of popular people from Xhosa like the singer Miriam Makeba , Nelson Mandela and plain else.(thanks translators...)


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