# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-wellington-gqoba
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:17:28.272Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-wellington-gqoba"
name: "William Wellington Gqoba"
slug: "william-wellington-gqoba"
description: "William Wellington Gqoba was a South African Xhosa poet, translator, and journalist. He was a major nineteenth-century Xhosa writer, whose relatively short life saw him working as a wagonmaker, a clerk, a teacher, a translator of Xhosa and English, and a pastor."
tagline: "South African Xhosa poet, translator, and journalist (1840–1888)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Wellington_Gqoba_.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1840"
deathDate: "1888-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.21
  momentum:             4.107142857142857
  historical:           5.069510666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wellington_Gqoba"
    title: "William Wellington Gqoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wellington_Gqoba"
    title: "William Wellington Gqoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wellington_Gqoba"
    title: "William Wellington Gqoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Gqoba%2C_William_Wellington"
    title: "U-Gqoba, William Wellington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%E2%80%99%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Г’оба, Уильям Веллингтон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wellington_Gqoba"
    title: "William Wellington Gqoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2575318"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump