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Sol Plaatje : a life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932
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- Creator
- Brian Willan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First University of Virginia Press edition
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019
- Physical Details
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- xxiv, 711pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813942094, 0813942098, 9780813943671
- OCLC
- on1096214701
- "Originally published in 2018 by Jacana Media, South Africa."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Beginnings to 1894 -- 'Full of pleasant anticipations': Kimberley, 1894-1898 -- 'The essential interpreter': Mafeking, 1898-1899 -- The siege of Mafeking, 1899-1900 -- After the siege, 1900-1902 -- Editor of Koranta ea becoana, 1902-1904 -- Koranta ea becoana and after, 1905-1910 -- Tsala ea becoana, the South African Native National Congress and the Land Act of 1913 -- Appealing to empire: England, 1914-1916 -- 'A full-fledged scholar': England, 1916-1917 -- Back home: South Africa, 1917-1919 -- Overseas again: England, 1919-1920 -- 'A wild goose chase'? Canada and the United States, 1920-1922 -- Too long away, England 1922-1923 -- The 1920s: a leader without a people? -- Setswana -- Mhudi -- So much still to do
Subjects
- Plaatje, Sol. T. (Solomon Tshekisho), 1876-1932.
- South African Native National Congress -- History.
- Journalists -- South Africa -- Biography.
- Nationalists -- South Africa -- Biography.
- Political activists -- South Africa -- Biography.
- Black people -- South Africa -- Biography.
- South Africa -- Race relations.
- South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1836-1909.