William Wellington Gqoba
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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.
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About this person
Country
South AfricaCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1840 to 1888 · aged 48
Written about in
6 languages
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