 Vilakazi's later novels continued to explore daily Zulu life, such as "UDingiswayo kaJobe" (1939) and "Nje nempela" (1944), the story of a traditionally polygamous household.His poetry, heavily influenced by European Romantic styles, fused rhyme and stanza forms previously unknown in Zulu with elements of the "izibongo", traditional praise poetry.His poetry became increasingly political in the course of his life, dramatizing the exploitation of not only the Zulus but of black Africans generally.