A Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
(Part of the New Directions in Narrative History Series)
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Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change--one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped foster the merging of African and European worlds into a new South African reality. Yet, by the 1860s, despite...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0300198299
ISBN13:9780300198294
Release Date:September 2013
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.7" x 8.9"
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