Doubly Elite: Exploring the Life of John Langalibalele Dube

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Title:	Doubly Elite: Exploring the Life of John Langalibalele Dube
Author:	Hughes, Heather
Year:	2001
Periodical:	Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:	27
Issue:	3
Period:	September
Pages:	445-458
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	South Africa Natal
Subjects:	African National Congress (South Africa) politicians History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations Development and Technology Education and Oral Traditions
About person:	John Langalibalele Dube (1871-1946)
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/823310
Abstract:	The first president of the ANC, John Langalibalele Dube, is well-known as the leading spokesman of his day of Natal's African Christian elite. This paper shows that Dube's entry into public life was predicated on his intimate association with the Quadi chiefdom elite, which was to provide critical support throughout his career. The matrix of relationships at the Inanda mission station, an American Zulu mission station in Natal founded in 1847, goes a long way towards explaining the key role that John Dube played much later, in the 1920s and 1930s, in brokering segregationist alliances between white and black interests. Notes, ref., sum.