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South Africa's struggle for independent education : the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the history of the Wilberforce Institute
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Title
South Africa's struggle for independent education : the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the history of the Wilberforce Institute / Vusumuzi Rodney Kumalo.
ISBN
9781928246497
1928246494
Publication
Cape Town, South Africa : BestRed, an imprint of HSRC Press, 2022.
Physical Description
xiv, 224 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Summary
"The Struggle for African Independent Education focuses on the Wilberforce Institute, one of the first major independent African schools in segregationist South Africa. It became the epicentre of the independent school movement in the Transvaal in the early twentieth century, demonstrating how newly urbanised mission-educated Africans, despite profound linguistic differences and regional backgrounds, shared far-reaching educational aspirations in the rapidly growing cosmopolitan, gold-driven Johannesburg after the South African War (1899-1902). The book examines how their common histories of oppression, segregation, displacement, dispossession, as well as despair and disillusionment with the mainstream missionary education, incited the new urban dwellers to wage the struggle for African independent education, and tells the story of how their determination led to the formation of the Wilberforce Institute."-- Back cover.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 10, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The beginnings of western missionary education in South Africa
The state, education and the demand for labour: Grey's policy of educating and simultaneously subjugating Africans
Skilled workmen, honest clerks and reliable domestic servants: Stewart of Lovedale and industrial education for Africans
The 'school people' resist and start asserting African independence, 1880s to 1890s
The Ethiopianists' and their struggle for religious and educational independence in the ZAR, 1880s to 1900 (56-59)
The USA and AME Church connections
The South African Native Affairs Commission reveals dissatisfaction with white missionary education, 1903- 1905
Edward Tsewu and local activists challenge the state and win lands rights for Africans in the Transvaal Colony, 1905
Land and Opportunity: The formation of Evaton, 1905
The long walk of J.Z. Tantsi: The beginnings of Wilberforce Institute, 1905-1914
Tolityi Magaya and the growth of Wilberforce, 1917-1924
'Up from Slavery': The colourful Rev Francis Gow junior takes charge, 1924-1934
Born for leadership' but dragged down by patriarchy and the depression: The Eva Morake years, 1934-1936
Dr A.B. Xuma dips into his own pockets
Doing Wright: The Reconstruction of Wilberforce, 1938-1940
The tenures of Dr Jacob Nhlapo and the sacrificing superintendent, Dr. Rev Josephus Coan, 1940-1947
Dr Nhlapo on national duty: The unification of African languages The Atlantic Charter and Africans' Claims, 1942-43
End of an era: The arrival of Bantu education, 1948-1955
The Wilberforce Legacy: Alumni during and after apartheid.
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Genre/Form
History.
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