In India and East Africa = E-Indiya nase East Africa : a travelogue in isiXhosa and English / D.D.T. Jabavu ; translated by Cecil Wele Manona ; edited by Tina Steiner, Mhlobo W. Jadezweni, Catherine Higgs and Evan M. Mwangi
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index
Contents:
Afterword : Jabavu and African translations for the future / Evan M. Mwangi Revisiting D.D.T. Jabavu, 1885-1959 / Catherine Higgs -- Notes on the original and the translation / Mhlobo W. Jadezweni -- In praise of Cecil Wele Manona / Catherine Higgs -- E-Indiya nase East Africa / D.D.T Jabavu -- In India and East Africa / D.D.T Jabavu, translated by Cecil Wele Manona -- Afterword : Jabavu and African translations for the future / Evan M. Mwangi
Summary:
"In November 1949, Davidson Don Tengo (D.D.T.) Jabavu, the South African politician, Methodist lay preacher and retired professor of African languages and Latin at Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape, set out on a four-month trip to attend the World Pacifist Meeting in India. The conference brought together delegates from over thirty countries to reflect on how Mahatma Gandhi's life and teachings could inform pacifist work in the post-World War II era. Jabavu wrote an isiXhosa account of his journey up the east coast of Africa and to different parts of India which was first published in 1951 by Lovedale Press. His narrative contains wide-ranging reflections on the fauna and flora of the changing landscape, on intriguing social interactions during his travels, and on the conference itself, where he considered what lessons Gandhian principles might yield for oppressed South Africans engaged in struggles for freedom and dignity. He incorporates accounts of chance meetings with important figures of post-independence India and of the anti-colonial struggle in East Africa, as well as with members of the American civil rights movement. His commentary on non-violent resistance, and on the dangers of nationalism when coupled with militarism and racism, enriches the existing archive of intellectual and political exchange between Africa and India from a black South African perspective"-- Provided by Publisher.
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