Xhosa Dancers

Xhosa dancers for hire

Dances teach social patterns and values and help people work, mature, praise or criticize members of the community while celebrating festivals and funerals, competing, reciting history, proverbs, and poetry; and to encounter gods. Xhosa Dancers refers to “Afro” and relate to Sub-Saharan African music Traditions.

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Interesting facts on Xhosa dancers for hire

he Xhosa people(/ˈkɔːsə/ KAW-sə, /ˈkoʊsə/ KOH-sə;^[2][3][4] Xhosa pronunciation: [kǁʰɔ́ːsa] ^ⓘ) are a Bantu ethnic group and nation native to South Africa. They are the second largest ethnic group in South Africa and are native speakers of the isiXhosa language.

The Xhosa people are descendants of Nguni clans who settled in the Southeastern part in Southern Africa. Archaeological evidence suggests that the Xhosa people have inhabited the Eastern Cape region from as early as the 14th-century AD. Their language, IsiXhosa is over a thousand-year old.

Presently, over ten million Xhosa-speaking people are distributed across Southern Africa, although their traditional homeland is primarily the Cape Province . In 1994 the self-governing countries of Transkei and Ciskei were incorporated into South Africa, becoming the Eastern Cape province.

As of 2003, the majority of Xhosa speakers, approximately 5.3 million, lived in the Eastern Cape, followed by the Western Cape (approximately 1 million), Gauteng (971,045), the Free State (546,192), KwaZulu-Natal (219,826), North West (214,461), Mpumalanga (46,553), the Northern Cape (51,228), and Limpopo (14,225).^[5]

There is a small but significant Xhosa-speaking (Mfengu) community in Zimbabwe, and their language, isiXhosa, is recognised as an official national language. This community was brought by Cecil John Rhodes for cheap labour in Rhodesian mines in early 20th century.^{[clarification needed][6]}

Some archaeological evidence has been discovered that suggests that Xhosa-speaking people have lived in the Eastern Cape area since at least the 7th century.^[7] The modern Xhosa are Nguni people, a stock of Bantu ^{[citation needed]}

The Xhosa people are descendants of the ancestors of Ngunis. Xhosa oral history also mentions a historical settlement called ‘Eluhlangeni’ believed to have been in East Africa in which the Ngunis lived in for some time before continuing with their migration.^{[citation needed]}

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