A Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa

by Roger S. Levine

Book Overview

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"