A quiz - how well do you know the rural Xhosa culture? (A dying culture?)?

What is -


1. Xoshombe?


2. more important - donkeys, sheep or cattle?


3. the staple diet?


4. the national sport of the Xhosa youths before entering manhood?


5. the Ntonjane ritual?


6. Hlonipa?


7. traditional beer brewed from?


8. Why are the women´s pipes longer than the mens?


9. What colour blankets do Xhosas traditionally wear?


10. For what craftwork are the Xhosa renowned?


11. What are amaqkwetha?


12. What are the new men called when they have finished the whole initiation ceremony?


13. What are the two major clans of the Xhosa?


14. For what kind of buttons are the Fingo notable?


15. What do the 2 red-orange pom poms worn by Bomvana women on their headwear indicate?


16. Why is the sediment of the beer placed in the cattle kraal?


17. Where is the grave of Nongqause?


18. Which branch of the Xhosa people are easily identified by their black long plaited hair, hardened with clay or soap and blackened with shoe polish?


19. Why do Xhosa women always wear a headdress?

A quiz - how well do you know the rural Xhosa culture? (A dying culture?)?
I don't know all of the answers, but some of them,





The Tshawe and then Thembus are the most "important" amongst the AmaXhosa.





Ntonjane is the ritual of twelve days after a girl's first menstruation when she becomes a woman. It involves slaughtering a bull and singing and dancing in the kraal of the girl's father.





Hlonipha is rather complicated, but as i understand it, it is to do with avoiding taboo words and replacing them with other words- a practice which is dying out. If your husband's clan name meant "Long-grass" after his death or the death of the clan leader you would avoid using the phrase "long grass" and substitute it with something else. This can be nigh on impossible for outsiders to understand unless they be familiar with the whole clan structure and fluent in the local dialect of the language.





Amaqwetha are newly circumcised men.





I didn't know all of these obviously, but I found a list!


* Bhele (divides into several sub-clan groups - Dongo, Langa, etc.)


* Cirha


* Deyi


* Dlamini (or Zizi, the clan name of Thabo Mbeki, an Mfengu subgroup)


* Dlane


* Dlangamandla


* Dlomo (different lines, Thembu or Hlubi subgroups)


* Dontsa (a Hlubi subgroup clan name)


* Dosini


* Nxuba/Duma


* Faku (Nyawuza)


* Gadluma


* Ganu


* Gebe (a Bomvana clan name)


* Gqwashu (with Khoi-khoi ancestry)


* Gubevu (Maduna)


* Hegebe


* Jwarha


* Khawuta


* Khumalo (an Mfengu clan name)


* Khwetshube (an Mpondo clan name)


* Madiba (the clan name of Nelson Mandela, a Thembu. Important rulers and chiefs include Mthikrakra, Ngangelizwe, Dalindyebo, Joyi, Jumba, Sabatha,Buyelekhaya)


* Maduna (an Mfengu clan name)


* Mbanjwa


* Mbatha


* Mbotho


* Mfene


* Mhaga


* Miya


* Mpehle (Mpodomise subgroup clan name)


* Mpemvu (a Thembu clan name)


* Mpinga (Mawawa)


* Mvulane


* Myirha


* Ncuthu


* Ngcitshane


* Ngxongo


* Ngwanya


* Nkwali (an Mfengu clan name)


* Nqarhwane


* Ntshilibe


* Nxasana


* Nyawuza (Faku, Mpondo ruling line. Chiefs include Faku, Sigcau, Bokleni, Ndamase)


* Nzothwa


* Qadi


* Qhinibe (Ntshilibe)


* Qoco


* Qoma


* Qwambi


* Qwathi (divides into several sub-clans:Dikela, Sdindi, Bhlangwe,Bhose, etc. Chiefs include Nqeno, Stokwe, Dalasile, Fubu, Zwelakhe)


* Rhadebe


* Rhoyi


* Sithathu - means "third" (the third Khoi-khoi ancestry clan)


* Shiya


* Sohobese


* Sukwini (with Khoi-khoi ancestry)


* Tolo (Dlangamandla)


* Tshangisa


* Tshawe (the ruling house among all the Xhosa. Chiefs include Hintsa, Sigcawu, Sarhili, Xolilizwe, etc.)


* Tshezi (the ruling Bomvana clan of the Jalamba-Gambushe line, with European shipwreck ancestry)


* Tshomane (with shipwreck ancestry, split from the ruling Nyawuza clan of the Mpondo)


* Xesibe


* Xhamela


* Zangwa


* Zikhali





I'll leave the rest for some of the other answerers too find out! An EXCELLENT QUESTION CAKES, it made me curious enough to go and find out some answers and I also learned some interesting facts which I have saved to my computer.....
Reply:OK, I am not going to find the answers and then give you answers. I have no clue of any of the above. It shows how little we know of South African cultures.
Reply:after reading that


I don't know it at all


Sorry



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