African intellectuals in 19th and early 20th century : South Africa / edited by Mcebisi Ndletyana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ndletyana, Mcebisi.

Human Sciences Research Council. Democracy and Governance Research Programme.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--South Africa--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Intellectual life.

South Africa--Intellectual life.

South Africa.

Ntsikana, approximately 1760-1820.

Ntsikana.

Soga, Tiyo, 1829-1871.

Soga, Tiyo.

Jabavu, John Tengo, 1859-1921.

Jabavu, John Tengo.

Rubusana, W. B. (Walter Benson), 1858-1936.

Rubusana, W. B.

Mqhayi, S. E. K.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 76 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cape Town : HSRC Press ; [Chicago] : Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group, 2008.

Summary:

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 tend to be exclusively about wars, and present the modernisation of South African society with Africans as subjects of the process, and settlers as the main agents of change. This modest intervention focuses on the pioneering role played by the early African thinkers and shows how they became co-architects of South African modernity.

The authors, specialists in heritage, history and literature, hope that readers will find inspiration to continue the tradition of intellectual activity that has always been the hallmark of African communities.

Contents:

2 Ntsikana / Vuyani Booi 7

3 Tiyo Soga / Mcebisi Ndletyana 17

4 John Tengo Jabavu / Mcebisi Ndletyana 31

5 Mpilo Walter Benson Rubusana / Songezo Joel Ngqongqo 45

6 Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi / Mncedisi Qangule 55.

Notes:

"Commissioned and funded by the Amathole District Municipality (East London) and the National Heritage Commission. Compiled within the Democracy and Governance Research Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-76).

ISBN:

9780796922076

0796922071

OCLC:

190418437

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