John knox bokwe hymns and favorites

john knox bokwe hymns and favorites

Bokwe, John Knox (A)

John Knox Bokwe is honoured as one of the most celebrated Xhosa hymn writers. He was a member of the Ngqika Mbamba clan and was born as Ntselamanzi, near Lovedale, on 15 March 1855.

He grew up in the district and it was here that he later became a leader in the Presbyterian Church. His father, Jacob, was one of the first pupils to enroll at Lovedale when it opened as a teaching institution on 21 July 1841.

Jacob named his youngest son after the Scottish Presbyterian churchman John Knox. As a boy, John first attended the local mission school and had as his teachers William Daniel Msindwana and William Kolbe Ntsikana, grandson of Ntsikana, the Xhosa prophet and hymn writer. In 1866 he was admitted to the preparatory classes at the Lovedale Institution. He continued on to the college in 1869 and finished his schooling four years later (Stewart 1888:22).

From the time he was a young boy Bokwe worked at the institution to help pay his fees. In 1867 he started

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John Knox Bokwe is honored as one of the most celebrated Xhosa hymn writers.
John Knox Bokwe (15 March 1855 – 22 February 1922) was a South African journalist, Presbyterian minister and one of the most celebrated Xhosa hymn writers and musician.
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  • Eastern cape born John Knox Bokwe.

    • Makwaya - Dictionary of Hymnology

  • read his favourite chapter-the 23rd psalm-and his favourite hymn-" The sands of time are sinking "-to ears that were opening to other sounds.

    • John Knox Bokwe - Dictionary of Hymnology

  • Bokwe was the first to adapt John Curwen’s Tonic Sol-fa* system to Xhosa music.

    • John Knox Bokwe, Colonial Composer: Tales about Race and Music

  • John Knox Bokwe (15 March – 22 February ) was a South African journalist, Presbyterian minister and one of the most celebrated Xhosa hymn writers and musician.

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      From 1875 Bokwe started to compose hymns.

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      Bokwe was the first to adapt John Curwen’s Tonic Sol-fa* system to Xhosa music.

    John Knox Bokwe, Colonial Composer: Tales about Race and ...

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      John Knox Bokwe, Colonial Composer: Tales about Race and Music GRANT OLWAGE Lovedale and mastering form From the margins of Empire at the eastern reaches of the nineteenth-century Cape Colony, a fledgling mission press embarked on a novel venture: the printing of a Very pretty hymn tune'.1 Composed by the convert John Knox.