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Black Womanism in South Africa (Paperback)
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Black Womanism in South Africa (Paperback)
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Princess Emma, as she became known in colonial circles, was the
eldest daughter of the Rharhabe chief Mgolombane Sandile, leader of
the Ngqika tribe - western amaXhosa in the 19th Century. This book
focuses on the life of Emma Sandile from her early years to her
adulthood. Her story reads like a novel except that it is all true,
based on archival sources, press reports and fieldwork. After the
Cattle Killing in 1857 Governor Sir George Grey and Bishop Robert
Gray planned to educate the children of the Xhosa elite as English
gentlemen and women loyal to the Empire. This included Emma and her
brother Gonya, Sandile's heir, who were sent to Cape Town in 1858.
Emma attended the Anglican Zonnebloem College until 1863; her
school mistress described this time in an unpublished journal. In
1859, Grey granted Emma and Gonya farms in the Eastern Cape to
cover their schooling, making Emma the first black woman private
landowner in Southern Africa. As the first black woman landowner in
Southern Africa, as the earliest black woman writer in English, as
the only woman to attend the Land Commission, Emma was one of the
pioneers of black womanism in our country. Her courage in bridging
her African tradition and the imposed western culture was without
precedence. It is hoped that this window on Emma's world will give
some understanding of the problems involved in religious and social
change. Perhaps her courage in fighting for her rights as she
weathered the storms of fluctuating fortunes will be an inspiration
to those who are following in her footsteps today.
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