St John Page Yako

St John Page Yako (1901, Qokolweni, Transkei - 1977) was a Xhosa poet[1] and professor of Xhosa literature in Eastern Cape, South Africa. A translation of one of his poems was published as "The Contraction and Enclosure of the Land" in The Lava of the Land, an anthology of South-African poetry edited by Denis Hirson.[2] "The Contraction and Enclosure" uses imagery from oral poetry to illustrate the consequences of race-based land legislation of South Africa in the 1950s that destroyed the traditional ways of life of many tribes.[3]

Bibliography
  • Umtha Welenga ("Ray of the Sun", 1959)
  • Ikwezi ("Poems", 1959)

References
  1. Opland, Jeff (1998). Xhosa Poets and Poetry. New Africa Books. pp. 14, 63. ISBN 9780864864208.
  2. Kalu, Anthonia C., ed. (2007). "The African Travels of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq". The Rienner Anthology of African Literature. Boulder: Lynn Rienner. pp. 293, 961, 976. ISBN 9781626375833.
  3. Beningfield, Jennifer (2006). The Frightened Land: Land, Landscape and Politics in South Africa in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. pp. 145–46. ISBN 9781134213535.
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