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Nontando Noni Jabavu, 1919 - 2008

Title
Nontando Noni Jabavu, 1919 - 2008 / by Asanda Sizani, [publishing editor].
Publication
[South Africa] : Legacy Creates (Pty) Ltd, [2022]

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Sizani, Asanda
Description
112 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 25 cm
Summary
"South African writer and journalist Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu (1919 - 2008) was born in the Eastern Cape. Educated in Britain from the age of 13, she is the author of two autobiographical works, Drawn in Colour, African contrasts (1960) and The Ochre People scenes from a South African life (1963). In 1961 she became the first African woman editor of a British literary magazine The New Strand. She moved back to South Africa in 2002. Includes contributions by her nieces Mzolisi Makiwane and Linda Mvusi, her grandson Tengo Xhosa Carter, and Zimbabwean poet and playwright Virginia Phiri, who became friends with Jabavu on her return"--Internet.
Subject
  • Jabavu, Noni
  • Journalists > South Africa > Biography
  • Authors, South African > Biography
  • Authors, South African
  • Journalists
  • South Africa
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Note
  • Cover title.
  • "2022/2023."
ISBN
  • 9780639719689
  • 0639719686
OCLC
  • on1350837921
  • 1350837921
  • SCSB-14335797
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries