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The Xhosa Ntsomi

The Xhosa Ntsomi

Harold Scheub, Professor of African Languages and Literature Harold Scheub — 1975
"The Xhosa ntsomi (sing. intsomi; pl. iintsomi) is a performing art which has, as its dynamic mainspring, a core-cliché (a song, chant, or saying) which is, during a performance, developed, expanded, detailed, and dramatized before an audience which is itself composed of performers, everyone in a Xhosa society being a potential performer."--Introduction.
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