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Jabavu, Davidson D. T. (Davidson Don Tengo), 1885-1959

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Personal name headingJabavu, Davidson D. T. (Davidson Don Tengo), 1885-1959
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Variant(s)Jabavu, D. D. T. (Davidson Don Tengo), 1885-1959
Jabavu, Davidson D. T. (Davidson Don Tengo), b. 1885
Jabavu, Davidson Don Tengo, 1885-
Associated countrySouth Africa Great Britain
Birth date18851020
Death date19590803
Place of birthKing William's Town (South Africa)
Place of deathEast London (South Africa)
AffiliationUniversity College of Fort Hare
All-African National Convention
Profession or occupationLanguage teachers
Found inHis Bantu literature, 1973: t.p. (Davidson D.T. Jabavu)
LC data base, 04-24-91 (hdg.: Jabavu, Davidson Don Tengo, 1885- ; usage: D.D.T. Jabavu)
The Native Bills, 1995: p.xi (died 1959)
Encyclopaedia Britannica (online), Aug. 6, 2015 (Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu; South African black educator and political leader; b. Oct. 20, 1885, King William's Town, Cape Colony (now in Cape Province); d. Aug. 3, 1959, East London, S. Africa; educated in South Africa, Wales, and the universities of London and Birmingham; he began teaching at Fort Hare Native College (later University College) in 1916; in Dec. 1935 he founded the All-African National Convention (AANC), bringing together opponents of white government's increasing disenfranchisement of non-whites; he retired from politics after 1948 and devoted his time to teaching Latin and Bantu languages at University College, Fort Hare)