Xhosa - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Among the first collections of poetry in this language are John Solilo’s Izala and S. E. K. Mqhayi’s (“um-KAH-yee’s”) Imihobe nemibongo. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this Bantu Nguni language of South Africa related to Swazi, Ndebele (“in-DEB-eh-leh”), and Zulu. This language’s oral poets of the izibongo tradition make use of click consonants represented by the letters C, X, and Q.

ANSWER: Xhosa (“KAW-suh”) [or isiXhosa]

[10h] Scholarship on Xhosa izibongo poetry uses this English term to describe its genre. Yoruban oríkì and Shona nhétémbo belong to this broad African tradition that involves using lists of compound epithets to highlight a person, animal, or object.

ANSWER: praise poetry [accept praise singing]

[10m] An izibongo praise poem about this person describes how he “raged among the large kraals.” This person is the subject of an oral epic translated by Mazisi Kunene and a novel by Thomas Mofolo.

ANSWER: Shaka [or Shaka Zulu; or Tshaka; or Chaka; or Shaka kaSenzangakhona; accept Emperor Shaka the Great]

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	83%	0%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	17.00	100%	50%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%

Data


Claremont A	Claremont B	0	0	0	0
UC Berkeley A	UC Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
UCLA	UCSD	10	0	10	20
Florida B	Valencia A	10	0	10	20
Florida A	Florida State A	10	0	10	20
UCF B	UCF C	0	0	0	0
Duke	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Wake Forest	Liberty A	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	South Carolina	10	0	0	10
UNC C	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
UNC D	William & Mary	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Illinois B	Chicago D	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Illinois C	10	0	0	10
Indiana B	Indiana A	10	0	0	10
WashU B	Missouri	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Missoui S&T	10	0	10	20
Liberty B	UNC B	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Minnesota B	10	0	10	20
Iowa State	Wisconsin A	10	10	10	30
Wisconsin B	Winona State	10	0	10	20
BU	UMass Boston	10	0	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeis A	10	0	0	10
Harvard B	Brandeis B	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth A	Brown A	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Tufts A	10	0	10	20
Purdue	Georgetown B	10	0	10	20
Georgetown A	Iowa	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Notre Dame C	10	0	10	20
Northwestern B	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame A	Stanford B	10	0	0	10
ASU	TAMU	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Louisville A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Bruin A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Cambridge E	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Warwick B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge C	Warwick A	10	0	10	20
Bristol	Cambridge D	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Durham	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	NYU C	10	0	0	10
LSE	Oxford C	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Sheffield	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Southampton B	Manchester	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Haverford A	Columbia C	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	John Jay College	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	Vassar A	10	0	10	20
Penn A	Maryland B	10	0	0	10
Yale A	NYU B	10	0	10	20
Penn B	George Washington B	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	George Washington A	10	0	10	20
Cornell D	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
RIT A	ESF A	10	0	0	10
Cornell C	RIT B	10	0	0	10