title: Xhosa literature
text: # Xhosa literature
  
  Xhosa literature is the spoken and written literature of the Xhosa people of Southern Africa. The Xhosa language is spoken in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
  
  ## 20th-century literature
  
  Poet and teacher St John Page Yako wrote poetry using motifs derived from oral literature to describe the consequences of disastrous land politics of mid-century South Africa.
  
  ### Notable poets
  
  * Sipho Burns-Ncamashe
  * William Wellington Gqoba
  * Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
  * Enoch Sontonga
  * St John Page Yako
  