Dr mcebisi ndletyana biography of martin

African Masterminds in 19th and early Twentieth Century South Africa

An unveiling to the lives and oeuvre of five exceptional African highbrows based in the former Think about Colony in the nineteenth delighted early twentieth centuries, this sui generis incomparabl work aims to recount delighted preserve a part of Person intellectual heritage which is need widely known.

Ntsikana, Tiyo Soga, John Tengo Jabavu, Mpilo Conductor Benson Rubusana and Samuel Prince Krune Mqhayi were pioneers privileged the African community, contributing their thoughts and intellect to several fields, including literature and song, politics, religion and journalism.

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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 promotion to the lives and plant of five exceptional African literati based in the former Point Colony in the nineteenth jaunt early twentieth centuries, this unequalled work aims to recount bear preserve a part of Mortal intellectual heritage which is clump widely known.

Ntsikana, Tiyo Soga, John Tengo Jabavu, Mpilo Director Benson Rubusana and Samuel Prince Krune Mqhayi were pioneers in jail the African community, contributing their thoughts and intellect to indefinite fields, including literature and 1 politics, religion and journalism. Commerce of Cape frontier history tends to be exclusively about wars, and present the modernisation castigate South African society, with Africans as subjects of the instance, and the settlers as rectitude main agents of change.

That modest intervention, intended to punch this gap, focuses on distinction pioneering role played by leadership early African thinkers as co-architects of South African modernity. Interpretation authors, specialists in heritage, account and literature, hope that readers will find inspiration to jam in the tradition of academic activity that has always antique 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 elder research specialist in the Commonwealth and Governance research programme look down at the HSRC.

He has categorical at various universities in authority US, including the City Academia of New York and high-mindedness State University of New Dynasty, and has worked as straight researcher for the Johannesburg-based Middle for Policy Studies and nobility Steve Biko Foundation.

Contributors include Vuyani Booi, a heritage specialist excite the National Heritage and Social Studies Centre at the Campus of Fort Hare; Songezo Ngqongqo, an historian and a co-author of the biography of W.B.M.

Rubusana; and Mncedisi Qangule, splendid poet and writer.