(chiefly, South Africa) A praise singer, a traditional bard in Zulu culture.
Let us consider the contemporary oral poetry of the Xhosa Bantu, and its highest form, the praise-poetry of male tradents, who were attached until recently to tribal chiefs. The tradents are imbongi ‘praise poets’ and the genre of their …
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