TY - JOUR
AU - Povey, John
AB -  JOURNAL OF ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES T. Cope (Ed.), /zibongo: Zulu Praise Poems. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1968, pp. 229. $ 8.25 Izibongo - the word me ans "praises" in Zulu - is a collection of Zulu praise poems which makes the tenth in the extending list of African vernacular stories and poems recorded for the Oxford University African Literature Series under the general editorship ofProfessor Wilfred Whitely. It follows the pattern and matches the impressive scholarly standard of the earlier volumes: a substantial introduction, both cuItural and linguistic, is followed by poems printed in the conventional orthography of the originallanguage faced on the opposite page by a line by line literal translation into English. The latest volume concerns the Zulu people - the most prominent and powerful of Southern African tribes. Dr. Cope's introduction begins with a succinct account of Zulu history from the original migration of the tribe to the climactic military power of chief Shaka and the destructive contact with Boer and Briton in the nineteenth century. He goes on to analyse the structural complexities of the praise poem and its social context, arguing as a sociologist might, that "the function of praise poems .. .is 
TI - T. Cope (Ed.), Izibongo: Zulu Praise Poems . Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1968, pp. 229. $ 8.25
JF - Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies)
DO - 10.1163/15685217-90007133
DA - 1971-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/t-cope-ed-izibongo-zulu-praise-poems-oxford-clarendon-press-1968-pp-LvomkULgbP
SP - 72
EP - 73
VL - 6
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -