The South-Eastern Bantu: Abe-Nguni, Aba-Mbo, Ama-Lala (Cambridge Library Collection - Anthropology) - Softcover

Soga, John Henderson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108066828 ISBN 13: 9781108066822

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Son of Tiyo Soga, the first black South African to be ordained, John Henderson Soga (1860-1941) was a Xhosa minister and scholar. Like his father, he was one of the first of his people to receive an education in Europe and to marry a European woman. His perspective on his people's history is therefore distinctive. Driven by a desire to record Xhosa traditions before they were lost in a changing world, Soga collected oral histories during his work at mission stations in South Africa, producing this historical survey of three branches of the Bantu family. Including genealogies of the main tribes, and tracing their traditions, beliefs and conflicts, the work first appeared in this English version in 1930, having been translated by the author from his native language. His equally authoritative work of social anthropology, The Ama-Xosa: Life and Customs (1932), is also reissued in this series.

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Book Description:

Published in English in 1930 by John Henderson Soga (1860-1941), a Xhosa minister and scholar, this important work is based on Xhosa oral traditions collected by the author. A standard authority on the author's own people, it documents their history, traditions and tribal lives.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1108066828
• ISBN 13: 9781108066822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 558