ISAAC WAUCHOPE

Your cattle are gone, my countrymen!/ Go rescue them! Go rescue them!/ Leave the breechloader alone/And turn to the pen./ Take paper and ink,/ For that is your chield./ Your rights are going!/ So pick up your pen,/ Load it, load with ink./ Sit in your chair,/ Repair not to Hoho./ But fire with your pen [1880s].

- Isaac W. Wauchope, (Cited in A. C. Jordan, Toward An African Literature: The Emergence of Literary Form in Xhosa, 1974 [The essays forming the book originally appeared in Africa South in the 1950s]).