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Zonnebloem College and the genesis of an African intelligentsia, 1857-1933
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(Cape Town: African Lives, 2018) 9780639957913, 2018
ISBN 10: 0639957919
ISBN 13: 9780639957913
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Seller: Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Number 11 in the African Lives series. 233 x 165 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xxiv + 264, incl. index; plates, including some full colour illustrations. Fine condition. "In 1857, at the height of the colonial period, as Britain was advancing its control over southern Africa and absorbing the formerly independent African chiefdoms, the Anglican Bishop of Cape Town, Robert Gray, set up Zonnebloem College on an old wine farm on the outskirts of the city. Working in partnership with the British Governor, Sir George Grey, he enrolled the sons and daughters of leading African chiefs. They received an English, Christian education, the purpose of which was to further the cause of Christianity and 'civilisation' in Africa. This elite educational project, both cultural and political in nature, soon gathered steam. . Their stories, trials and achievements are recounted here, often in their own words. Central to the book is a unique collection of school essays and letters, that forms one of the earliest bodies of writing by Africans in southern Africa. This remarkable work, based on years of research and written with great sympathy, tells the little-known early history of the genesis of an African intelligentsia during the colonial period.". Seller Inventory # 13243
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