African Intellectuals in 19th and early 20th Century South Africa

An introduction to the lives and works of five exceptional African intellectuals based in the former Cape Colony in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique work aims to recount and preserve a part of African intellectual heritage which is not widely known. Ntsikana, Tiyo Soga, John Tengo Jabavu, Mpilo Walter Benson Rubusana and Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi were pioneers within the African community, contributing their thoughts and intellect to various fields, including literature and poetry, politics, religion and journalism.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

210mm x 148mm (Soft Cover)

Pages:

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2207-6

Publish Year:

2008

Rights:

World Rights

Foreword
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Mcebisi Ndletyana
Ntsikana
Vuyani Booi
Tiyo Soga
Mcebisi Ndletyana
John Tengo Jabavu
Mcebisi Ndletyana
Mpilo Walter Benson Rubusana
Songezo Joel Ngqongqo
Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
Mncedisi Qangule

Notes
Picture Credits
Contributors
References

Dr Mcebisi Ndletyana is a senior research specialist in the Democracy and Governance research programme at the HSRC. He has taught at various universities in the US, including the City University of New York and the State University of New York, and has worked as a researcher for the Johannesburg-based Centre for Policy Studies and the Steve Biko Foundation.

Contributors include Vuyani Booi, a heritage specialist at the National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre at the University of Fort Hare; Songezo Ngqongqo, an historian and a co-author of the biography of W.B.M. Rubusana; and Mncedisi Qangule, a poet and writer.