Dube, John Langalibalele, 1871-1946

LC control no.	n 85016734
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Dube, John Langalibalele, 1871-1946 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Dube, John L. (John Langalibalele), 1871-1946
Associated country	South Africa
Associated place	United States
Birth date	1871
Death date	1946-02-11
Place of birth	KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Place of death	KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Affiliation	Adams College (Amanzimtoti, South Africa) Oberlin College South African Native National Congress Natal Native Congress
Profession or occupation	Journalists Editors Essayists Civil rights workers
Found in	Marks, S. The ambiguities of dependence, c1985: CIP galley (John Langalibalele Dube, d. 1946) Standard encyc. of S. Africa (Dube, John Langalibalele, 1871-1946) Jeqe, the bodyservant of King Tshaka, 1951: t.p. (John L. Dube) NLSA, Mar. 10, 2008 (hdg.: Dube, John L. (John Langalibalele), 1871-1946; usage: John L. Dube) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Dube, John Langalibalele; Christian clergyperson / lay leader, educator, print journalist, essayist, civil rights activist, newspaper editor / publisher; born 1871 in KwaZulu-Natal, Near Inanda, South Africa; studied at Amanzimtoti (Adams College), Oberlin College, Ohio (1887 to 1891); after 1900, was a leader of the Natal Native Congress [NNC]; was the inaugural president of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) (1912-1917); became an adviser to the Zulu monarchy and the conservative Zulu cultural-nationalist organization Inkatha kaZulu; a brief flirtation with Pan-Africanism in the early 1920s gave way to focus on Zulu culture, seen in the books Isitha somuntu nguye uqobo Iwakhe (1922, The Black Man is His Own Worst Enemy), Insila ka Tshaka (1930, novel, translated as Jeqe, the body-servant of King Shaka), and Ushembe (1936, biography of the prophet Isaiah Shembe); the first African to receive an honorary doctorate by a South African university (1936); died 11 February 1946 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
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