The Xhosa Riddle
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1978
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University of Fort Hare
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The common word for the riddle in Xhosa is ighina.
Literally: this noun means. a knot on a string or tree, or a sharp or difficult ascent in a road or a mountain. Figuratively it means a difficulty, a hard problem. It is formed from the verb- qhina which means to fasten or bind. therefore a riddle, in Xhosa is a knot/ an intellectual knot to be untied, a puzzle to be worked out or to be solved. It is a puzzling statement, question or description intended to make a person use his wits.
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Xhosa, Sotho, Bantu Studies, Xhosa Riddles, Bantu Studies
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Claribel, ,K.(1978). The Xhosa Riddle .Alice. University of Fort Hare.