| LC control no. | n 50027259 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Doke, Clement M. (Clement Martyn), 1893-1980 |
| Variant(s) | Doke, C. M. (Clement Martyn), 1893-1980 Doke, Clement Martyn, 1893-1980 |
| Associated country | Great Britain England South Africa |
| Associated place | Johannesburg (South Africa) |
| Birth date | 1893-05-16 |
| Death date | 1980-02-24 |
| Place of birth | Bristol (England) |
| Place of death | East London (South Africa) |
| Field of activity | Lamba language (Zambia and Congo) Bible--Translating |
| Affiliation | University of the Witwatersrand University of the Witwatersrand. Department of Bantu Studies University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies Transvaal University College Kingswood College Bible Translation Society Baptist Union of South Africa |
| Profession or occupation | Linguists Africanists College teachers Linguistics teachers Translators |
| Found in | Author's The grammar of the Lamba language, 1922. His Outline grammar of Bantu, 1982: t.p. (C.M. Doke) Trekking in South Central Africa : 1913-1919, c1993: t.p. (Clement M. Doke) cover p. 3 (1893-1980; prof. of African studies at the Univ. of the Witwatersrand) page xi-xii (Clement Martyn Doke, born into a missionary family on 16 May 1893 in Bristol; the Doke family had been engaged in missionary activity for the Baptist Church for some generations; father Joseph Doke went to South Africa in 1882, met and married Agnes Biggs, and they returned to England where Clement was born, third of four children; the family returned to South Africa in 1903, to Grahamstown where Clement attended Kingswood College, then to Johannesburg in 1907 where he completed matriculation studies at Johannesburg Boys' High School (King Edward VII School) in 1908; bachelor's degree from Transvaal University College, Pretoria, at age 18) pages xii-xiv (Reverend William Arthur Phillips of the Nyasa Industrial Mission in Blantyre had established a Baptist mission in the area eventually known as Lambaland, now Ilamba, in northwestern Rhodesia in 1905; Joseph Doke was delegated by the Baptist Union of South Africa to investigate the mission in Lambaland with a view toward a possible takeover by the South African Baptists; during this fact-finding mission in 1913, Joseph Doke contracted typhoid fever and died; Clement assumed his father's role, and reported favorably on the Lambaland mission to the Baptist Missionary Assembly; the decision was made to take over the Kafulafuta Mission from the Nyasa Industrial Mission; Reverend Phillips, the founder, remained as superintendent through 1926; Doke set out to master the Lamba language and published his first book, Ifintu Fyakwe Lesa (The Things of God) in 1917; did MA thesis at Transvaal University College extension, thesis published as The Grammar of the Lamba Language; he had earlier contracted malaria, left Lambaland in 1921 for health reasons, recruited by the newly founded University of the Witwatersrand; moved to England to secure qualification as a lecturer, registered for a diploma in Comparative Bantu at the School of Oriental and African Studies, with major languages Lamba and Luba; changed his language of specialisation to Zulu; took up his appointment in 1923 in the new Department of Bantu Studies; D.Litt. 1925, thesis The Phonetics of the Zulu Language; appointed Chair of Bantu Languages and head of the Department of Bantu Studies in 1931; retired from the University in 1953) page xxv (elected president of the South African Baptist Union in 1949 and spent a year traveling to churches and mission stations; he used his presidency to speak out against the recently promulgated apartheid policy) pages xxxii-xxxiii (continued to work in the field of translation during his career as a linguist and in his retirement; completed translation of the Lamba Bible, published as Amasiwi AlaLesa (The Words of God) in 1959; awarded Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by Rhodes University and Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) by the University of the Witwatersrand in 1972) page xxxvii (died in East London on 24 February 1980, age 87) OCLC, Sept. 7, 2011 (usage: C.M. Doke, Clement M. Doke [most common]) JSTOR, Doke, C. M. Lamba literature, in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, vol. 7, no. 3, July 1934, viewed April 3, 2024: page 368 (Icewo Iciweme Ica Kuli Yesu Klistu ici a lembele Mako, Mark's Gospel, 1918; translated by C. M. Doke (B.T.S.)) pages 368-370 (Doke, C. M., author and translator of many works in Lamba or about Lamba folk literature and language, beginning in 1917) |
| Associated language | eng lam bnt |
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