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

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

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.

History, humanities and liberation Open Access

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  • Format: 210mm x 148mm (Soft Cover)
  • Pages: 80
  • ISBN 13: 978-07969-2207-6
  • Publish Year: HSRC Press
  • Rights: World Rights

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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. Accounts of Cape frontier history tends to be exclusively about wars, and present the modernisation of South African society, with Africans as subjects of the process, and the settlers as the main agents of change. This modest intervention, intended to close this gap, focuses on the pioneering role played by the early African thinkers as co-architects of South African modernity. The authors, specialists in heritage, history and literature, hope that readers will find inspiration to continue in the tradition of intellectual activity that has always been the hallmark of African communities.

Foreword
Acknowledgements

  1. Introduction
    Mcebisi Ndletyana
  2. Ntsikana
    Vuyani Booi
  3. Tiyo Soga
    Mcebisi Ndletyana
  4. John Tengo Jabavu
    Mcebisi Ndletyana
  5. Mpilo Walter Benson Rubusana
    Songezo Joel Ngqongqo
  6. Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
    Mncedisi Qangule

Notes
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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.

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