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

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

This multi-authored, multi-disciplinary book provides exciting scholarship on the nineteenth century Xhosa intellectual, the Reverend Tiyo Soga. A diverse range of scholars develop the reading of Soga as a lone frontier pioneer to that of a multifaceted intellectual and community representative, considering Soga’s agency as a member of several networks, including Xhosa royalty and communities; colonial politicians.  

HSRC Press

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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

This multi-authored, multi-disciplinary book provides exciting scholarship on the nineteenth century Xhosa intellectual, the Reverend Tiyo Soga. A diverse range of scholars develop the reading of Soga as a lone frontier pioneer to that of a multifaceted intellectual and community representative, considering Soga’s agency as a member of several networks, including Xhosa royalty and communities; colonial politicians.  

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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