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There is a strong link between Sotho music and Sotho poetry. A Sesotho praise poet characteristically uses assonance and alliteration. Eloquence or ‘bokheleke’ is highly valued in the sotho culture and people who possess this skill are respected. The praise poetry (dithoko) is not a musical form but, it is incorporated in most Sesotho songs ...
Dithoko, dithothokiso le dithoholetso tsa sesotho. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1966. The works of Thomas Mofolo : summaries and critiques : a forerunner of A digest of African vernacular literatures, 1967; The beginning of South African vernacular literature: A historical study. Heroic poetry of the Basotho, 1971
Ditema tsa Dinoko (Sesotho for "Ditema syllabary"), also known as ditema tsa Sesotho, is a constructed writing system (specifically, a featural syllabary) for the siNtu or Southern Bantu languages (such as Sesotho, Setswana, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, SiSwati, SiPhuthi, Xitsonga, EMakhuwa, ChiNgoni, SiLozi, ChiShona and Tshivenḓa).
Lebollo la banna is a Sesotho term for male initiation.. Lebollo is a cultural and traditional practice that transitions boys in the Basotho society to manhood. It is a rite of passage where bashanyana or bashemane (transl. "uncircumcised boys") pass puberty and enter adulthood to become monna (transl. "men") by circumcision.
'The Art of Sotho Habitation.' (Exhibition and publication by Gary van Wyk) Columbia University Record—October 14, 1994—Vol. 20, No. 6 LITEMA – The mural Art of the Basotho , a Website by Carina Beyer, Photography Programme, School for Design Technology and Visual Art of the Central University of Technology , Free State
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In Sesotho, nngwe is a variant (allomorph) of the adjective stem -ng used only for Class 9 nouns. The use of the number "one" in Sesotho is different from the other Sotho–Tswana languages, because the Sesotho -ng is an irregular enumerative which behaves sometimes like an adjective and can therefore become a noun.