Dube, John Langalibalele, 1871-1946
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Name (Latin)
Dube, John Langalibalele, 1871-1946
Other forms of name
Dube, John L. (John Langalibalele), 1871-1946
Dube, John Lindley, 1871-1946
Date of birth
1871-02-22
Date of death
1946-02-11
Associated country
South Africa
Occupation
Civil rights workers
Editors
Essayists
Journalists
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- 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)
- 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)
- first wife of Reverend John Langalibalele Dube, the first President-General of the South African Native National Congress (later called the African National Congress), who together with him built what is today known as the John Dube legacy in South Africa; they raised funds in the United States between 1896 and 1899 to build the Ohlange Institute in Inanda (1900), to establish the newspaper Ilanga Lase Natal (1903), and other initiatives that advanced black nationalism and development in colonial South Africa; coauthor, with John L. Dube, of Amagama Abantu (A Zulu Song Book (1911); until her death in 1917 she traveled many times with her husband to the U.S. to seek financial support for their work, following the model of Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama ( (The Presidency, Republic of South Africa (website), Ms Nokutela Dube (posthumous), viewed January 27, 2026) )
- Wikipedia, January 27, 2026(Nokutela Dube; married John Dube in 1894 in Inanda; they traveled in 1896 to Britain and a month later to New York; they were called Mr and Mrs John Lindley Dube in the newspapers there, Lindley being the name of the missionaries Daniel and Lucy Lindley who had established the Inanda mission; after returning to South Africa and teaching at Dube's former school at Inanda, they set up Ohlange High School, the first school in the country established by black teachers; they acquired a farm that became the seminary; the Dubes founded the first Zulu/English newspaper, Ilanga laseNatali (The Sun of Natal) in 1903; they failed to have children, and John Dube fathered a child with one of their pupils; the couple separated in about 1914 and Nokutela moved to the Transvaal where she preached in rural communities; became ill with kidney disease, returned to live with her husband in Johannesburg, where she died on 25 January 1917)
- Marks, S. The ambiguities of dependence, c1985:CIP galley (John Langalibalele Dube, d. 1946)
- Standard encyc. of S. Africa(Dube, John Langalibalele, 1871-1946)
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Wikipedia description:
John Langalibalele Dube OLG (22 February 1871 – 11 February 1946) was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), which became the African National Congress in 1923. He was an uncle to Dr Pixley ka Isaka Seme, with whom he founded SANNC. Dube served as the president of SANNC between 1912 and 1917. He was brought to America by returning missionaries and attended Oberlin Preparatory Academy. He returned to South Africa, where in 1901 he and his first wife, Nokutela Dube, founded the Ohlange High School based on the Tuskegee Institute founded by Booker T. Washington. In 1903, the Dubes founded the isiZulu newspaper Ilanga (now Ilanga lase Natal). In 1930, John Dube published Shaka's Body Servant. He died in 1946.
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