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Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika

Index Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika

"Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" is a hymn originally composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga, a Xhosa clergyman at a Methodist mission school near Johannesburg. [1]

54 relations: Aberystwyth (hymn tune), African National Congress, Afrikaans, Anti-Apartheid Movement, Apartheid, Boom Shaka, Coenie de Villiers, Constitution of South Africa, Die Stem van Suid-Afrika, Elvis Blue, Enoch Sontonga, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, Finland, Hymn, Idols South Africa, Ishe Komborera Africa, Jaakko Löytty, Johannesburg, John Langalibalele Dube, Joseph Parry, Kwaito, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Mahotella Queens, Malawi, Mang'u High School, Methodism, Miriam Makeba, Mission school, Mungu ibariki Afrika, Namibia, Namibia, Land of the Brave, National anthem of South Africa, National Anthem of Zimbabwe, Nelson Mandela, Northern Ndebele language, Ohlange High School, Oliver Mtukudzi, Osibisa, Paul Simon, President of South Africa, Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Shona language, Shosholoza, Sol Plaatje, Sotho language, Stand and Sing of Zambia, Proud and Free, Stanza, Tanzania, Virsikirja, Xhosa language, ..., Xhosa people, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Zulu language. Expand index (4 more) »

Aberystwyth (hymn tune)

"Aberystwyth" is a hymn tune composed by Joseph Parry, written in 1876 and first published in 1879 in Edward Stephen's Ail Lyfr Tonau ac Emynau (Welsh for "Second Book of Tunes and Hymns").

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African National Congress

The African National Congress (ANC) is the Republic of South Africa's governing political party.

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Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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Anti-Apartheid Movement

The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), originally known as the Boycott Movement, was a British organisation that was at the centre of the international movement opposing the South African apartheid system and supporting South Africa's non-White population who were persecuted by the policies of apartheid.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Boom Shaka

Boom Shaka was a pioneering kwaito music group from South Africa, consisting of Junior Sokhela, Lebo Mathosa, Theo Nhlengethwa and Thembi Seete.

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Coenie de Villiers

Coenie de Villiers (Coenraad Grabe de Villiers), born 11 October 1956, is a South African singer/songwriter, pianist, pop artist who sings in his mother tongue, Afrikaans.

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Constitution of South Africa

The Constitution of South Africa is the supreme law of the Republic of South Africa.

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Die Stem van Suid-Afrika

"Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" or "The Call of South Africa" was the national anthem of South Africa from 1957 to 1994, and shared co-national anthem status with "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" until 1997, when a new hybrid song incorporating elements of both songs was adopted as the country's new national anthem.

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Elvis Blue

Elvis Blue (born Jan Hoogendyk; 28 December 1979) is a South African musician and songwriter who won season 6 of Idols South Africa.

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Enoch Sontonga

Enoch Mankayi Sontonga (– 18 April 1905) was the composer of "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" from then Cape Colony (now part of Eastern Cape province), which has been part of the South African national anthem since 1994.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko; Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland) is a national church of Finland.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

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Idols South Africa

Idols is a television show on the South African television network M-Net, based on the popular British show Pop Idol.

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Ishe Komborera Africa

"Ishe Komborera Africa" (Shona: God Bless Africa), also called "Ishe Komborera Zimbabwe" (Shona: God Bless Zimbabwe), was Zimbabwe's first national anthem after gaining independence in 1980.

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Jaakko Löytty

Jaakko Löytty (born 1955, Finland) is one of the most significant Finnish gospel musicians.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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John Langalibalele Dube

John Langalibalele Dube (11 February 1871 – 11 February 1946) was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet.

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Joseph Parry

Joseph Parry (21 May 1841 – 17 February 1903) was a Welsh composer and musician.

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Kwaito

Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the 1990s.

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ladysmith Black Mambazo are a South African male choral group singing in the vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube.

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Mahotella Queens

The Mahotella Queens is a South African female group formed in 1964 by music producer Rupert Bopape.

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Malawi

Malawi (or; or maláwi), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland.

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Mang'u High School

Mang'u High School is a Kenyan Roman Catholic National High School established in 1925, located in Kiambu County along the Nairobi-Thika Highway six kilometres from Thika, Kenya.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Miriam Makeba

Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, actress, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil-rights activist.

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Mission school

A mission school or missionary school is a religious school originally developed and run by Christian missionaries.

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Mungu ibariki Afrika

"Mungu ibariki Afrika" is the national anthem of Tanzania.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (German:; Republiek van Namibië), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean.

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Namibia, Land of the Brave

"Namibia, Land of the Brave" is the national anthem of Namibia.

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National anthem of South Africa

The current national anthem of South Africa was adopted in 1997 and is a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the 19th century hymn "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" ("God Bless Africa") and the Afrikaans song "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" ("The Call of South Africa"), which was formerly used as the South African national anthem from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s.

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National Anthem of Zimbabwe

Simudzai Mureza wedu WeZimbabwe (English: Blessed be the Land of Zimbabwe, lit. "Lift High Zimbabwe's Banner"; Kalibusiswe Ilizwe leZimbabwe) is the national anthem of Zimbabwe.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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Northern Ndebele language

Northern Ndebele, also called Sindebele, Zimbabwean Ndebele or North Ndebele, and formerly known as Matabele, is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, spoken by the Northern Ndebele people, or Matabele, of Zimbabwe.

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Ohlange High School

Ohlange High School is a secondary school in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Oliver Mtukudzi

Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi (born 22 September 1952 in Highfield, Harare) is a Zimbabwean musician, businessman, philanthropist, human rights activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Southern Africa Region.

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Osibisa

Osibisa are a Ghanaian Afrobeat band, founded in London in 1969 by four expatriate African and three Caribbean musicians.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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President of South Africa

The President of the Republic of South Africa is the head of state and head of government under the Constitution of South Africa.

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Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi

Samuel Edward Krune Loliwe Ngxekengxeke Mqhayi (S. E. K. L. N Mqhayi, 1 December 1875–29 July 1945) was a Xhosa dramatist, essayist, critic,novelist, historian, biographer, translator and poet whose works are regarded as instrumental in standardising the grammar of isiXhosa and preserving the language in the 20 century.

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Shona language

Shona (chiShona) is the most widely spoken Bantu language as a first language and is native to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.

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Shosholoza

"Shosholoza" is an Nguni song that was sung by the mixed tribes of miners mining gold in South Africa.

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Sol Plaatje

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (9 October 1876 – 19 June 1932) was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer.

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Sotho language

Sotho (Sesotho; also known as Southern Sotho, or Southern Sesotho, Historically also Suto, or Suthu, Souto, Sisutho, Sutu, or Sesutu, according to the pronunciation of the name.) is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana (S.30) group, spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language.

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Stand and Sing of Zambia, Proud and Free

"Stand and Sing of Zambia, Proud and Free" is the national anthem of Zambia.

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Stanza

In poetry, a stanza (from Italian stanza, "room") is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Virsikirja

Virsikirja ("hymn book") is the official hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland consisting of 632 hymns.

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Xhosa language

Xhosa (Xhosa: isiXhosa) is a Nguni Bantu language with click consonants ("Xhosa" begins with a click) and one of the official languages of South Africa.

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Xhosa people

The Xhosa people are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa mainly found in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa, and in the last two centuries throughout the southern and central-southern parts of the country.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa, (although some sources prefer to consider it part of the region of east Africa) neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Harare. A country of roughly million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most commonly used. Since the 11th century, present-day Zimbabwe has been the site of several organised states and kingdoms as well as a major route for migration and trade. The British South Africa Company of Cecil Rhodes first demarcated the present territory during the 1890s; it became the self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1923. In 1965, the conservative white minority government unilaterally declared independence as Rhodesia. The state endured international isolation and a 15-year guerrilla war with black nationalist forces; this culminated in a peace agreement that established universal enfranchisement and de jure sovereignty as Zimbabwe in April 1980. Zimbabwe then joined the Commonwealth of Nations, from which it was suspended in 2002 for breaches of international law by its then government and from which it withdrew from in December 2003. It is a member of the United Nations, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). It was once known as the "Jewel of Africa" for its prosperity. Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in 1980, when his ZANU-PF party won the elections following the end of white minority rule; he was the President of Zimbabwe from 1987 until his resignation in 2017. Under Mugabe's authoritarian regime, the state security apparatus dominated the country and was responsible for widespread human rights violations. Mugabe maintained the revolutionary socialist rhetoric of the Cold War era, blaming Zimbabwe's economic woes on conspiring Western capitalist countries. Contemporary African political leaders were reluctant to criticise Mugabe, who was burnished by his anti-imperialist credentials, though Archbishop Desmond Tutu called him "a cartoon figure of an archetypal African dictator". The country has been in economic decline since the 1990s, experiencing several crashes and hyperinflation along the way. On 15 November 2017, in the wake of over a year of protests against his government as well as Zimbabwe's rapidly declining economy, Mugabe was placed under house arrest by the country's national army in a coup d'état. On 19 November 2017, ZANU-PF sacked Robert Mugabe as party leader and appointed former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his place. On 21 November 2017, Mugabe tendered his resignation prior to impeachment proceedings being completed.

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Zulu language

Zulu (Zulu: isiZulu) is the language of the Zulu people, with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nkosi_Sikelel'_iAfrika

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