Tiyo Soga: An African voice in history, faith, and freedom

Global South Rising? BRICS and the Reconfiguration of Knowledge Systems poses an important provocation: can BRICS reshape global knowledge hierarchies? This edited volume examines the bloc’s socioeconomic rise and its ambition to reconfigure not just the global economy, but also intellectual power structures. Framed as a potential ‘New Bandung’, it echoes the 1955 Bandung Conference, where newly independent nations sought solidarity amid Cold War tensions. Contributors explore whether BRICS can similarly foster a new global knowledge order. International experts assess the bloc’s performance, highlighting its challenge to dominant Western epistemologies and its potential to amplify Global South agency. South Africa, viewed as the smallest BRICS member, emerges as a key player in advancing collaboration in higher education and science. With strategic analysis and fresh insights, this volume invites readers to rethink power, knowledge, and global cooperation.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

216x140mm

Pages:

280pp

ISBN-13:

978-1-928246-75-6

Publish Year:

March 2026

Rights:

World Rights

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About the authors
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction Joanne Ruth Davis
1.’That invaluable friend of our Mission’: The Interdependence of Tiyo Soga and Charles Brownlee – Tolly Bradford
2.Exploring the Narratives: The Rharhabe Queen Suthu, Mgwali Mission and the Soga Family – Stephanie Victor
3.Ingoma Ka Tiyo: Umsebenzi: A Curatorial Intervention – Zodwa Skeyi-Tutani
4.Lizal’isidinga laKho: A Theological Reflection on Soga’s Spirituals – Sandiswa Lerato Kobe
5.Sistren and Brethren in the Life of the Reverend Tiyo Zisani Soga – Joanne Ruth Davis
6.Echoes from the African Church through the John Tshathsu Tiyo Soga Continuum – Nomathamsanqa Tisani
7.Reverend (Rev.) uMfundisi Tiyo Soga, a man of ‘His’ world: A Gospel-Centred Cultural Interpretation of the Bible – Axolile Qina
8.The rise and fall of the Christian community and its leaders at Dikgatlhong (Likatlong) on the Harts-Vaal confluence of the Northern Cape, 1839-1897 – Neil Parsons
9.Mission and evangelism in the work of the Reverend Tiyo Soga – Joanne Ruth Davis
Afterword Snippets from the Family Fireside – Camagu Soga
Index

Joanne Ruth Davis is a literary theorist with a special fascination with the literary history of southern Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She studied at UCT and UNISA and she is a Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study and a Research Associate at SOAS in the Centre for World Christianity. Her book Tiyo Soga: A Literary History (2018) won the Hiddingh Currie award in 2020.

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