Episode 052
Zulu Intellectual History
Hlonipha Mokoena (Anthropology, Columbia U.) on her new book: Magema Fuze: The Making of a Kholwa Intellectual (2011). Explains the rise of a black intelligentsia in 19th- and early 20th-century South Africa through the remarkable life of Fuze, the first Zulu-speaker to publish a book in the language: Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona / The Black People and Whence They Came
Introduction
Magema Fuze and the Early Black Press
Translation in the Press
Names and Bridging Cultures
Fuze's St. Helena Years
Fuze's Views on Zulu Nobility
Fuze as a Historian
Outro