The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885-1959

by Catherine Higgs

Book Overview

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu was born in the Cape Colony in British southern Africa on October 20, 1885, when a few African men could vote and the prospects for black equality with the ruling whites seemed promising. He died on August 3, 1959, in the Cape Province of the Union of South Africa, eleven years after the apartheid state had begun stripping blacks of their rights and exorcising the 'ghost of equality' with a completeness unparalleled in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821411691
• ISBN13: 9780821411698
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"