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Jabavu is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (1885–1959), Bantu political activist and author *John Tengo Jabavu (1859–1921), South African writers and political activist *Noni Jabavu Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu (20 August 1919 – 19 June 2008) was a South African writer and journalist, one of the first African women to pursue a successful literary career and the first black South African woman to publish books of autobiogr ... (1919–2008), South African writer and journalist {{Surname Xhosa-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu
Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (20 October 1885 – 3 August 1959) was a Xhosa educationist and politician, and a founder of the All African Convention (AAC), which sought to unite all non-European opposition to the segregationist measure of the South African government.''Makers of Modern Africa'', London: Africa Journal Ltd, pp. 227–28. He was the eldest son of political activist and pioneering newspaper editor John Tengo Jabavu, and the father of Noni Jabavu, one of the first African female writers and journalists. Biography Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu was born in King Williams Town, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, and was educated at Morija Institution, a mission centre in Basutoland (present-day Lesotho). He later studied at Lovedale (South Africa), Lovedale in the Cape Province before going to the United Kingdom, where he completed his matriculation at Colwyn Bay in Wales. In 1906 he entered the University of London, earning a BA degree in English six years later. As a student he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tengo Jabavu
John Tengo Jabavu (11 January 1859 – 10 September 1921) was a political activist and the editor of South Africa's first newspaper to be written in Xhosa. Early life John Tengo Jabavu was born on 11 January 1859 near Healdtown in the eastern Cape. In 1875 he graduated from the Methodist mission school at Healdtown and became a teacher at Somerset East. While teaching, he began to write articles for some South African newspapers and he apprenticed himself to a printer. In 1881, Jabavu was invited by Reverend James Stewart of the Lovedale Mission School to become the editor of the institution's Xhosa-language journal, '' Isigidimi samaXhosa'' ("The Xhosa Messenger"). Career By the early 1880s Jabavu had become an important political force. His writings tended to focus on the threat of growing Afrikaner nationalism and his demands for equal rights for Cape Colony's Xhosa population. Tengo Jabavu was also known as a proponent of women's rights as well as public education. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noni Jabavu
Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu (20 August 1919 – 19 June 2008) was a South African writer and journalist, one of the first African women to pursue a successful literary career and the first black South African woman to publish books of autobiography. Educated in Britain from the age of 13, she became the first African woman to be the editor of a British literary magazine when in 1961 she took on the editorship of ''The New Strand'', a revived version of ''The Strand Magazine'', which had closed in 1950.Gcina Ntsaluba"Call to restore Noni Jabavu legacy" ''Daily Dispatch'', 31 January 2013; via PressReader. In the words of poet Makhosazana Xaba: "One only has to read her two books (''Drawn in Colour'' and ''The Ochre People'') to realize just how skilled she was as a memoirist. Her journalistic column editorials demonstrate a reflective style that must have been unusual for her times. While interviewing Wally Serote who was living in Botswana during the same time as Noni, I learne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |