Pixley ka Isaka Seme
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Pixley ka Isaka Seme (October 1, 1881-June 1951) was a founder and President of the African National Congress.
He was born in Natal, South Africa of Royal Zulu blood. At 17 years of age Seme was educated in the U.S., first at the Mount Hermon School and then Columbia University. In 1906, his senior year at University, he was awarded the Curtis Medal, Columbia's highest oratorical honor. He subsequently decided to become an attorney and earned an advanced degree from Oxford University.
Seme's nationalist organizing of African tribes paralleled the contemporaneous efforts of Mahatma Gandhi with South African Indians.
The birthdate listed is not certain--it was Seme's personal estimate at the time of his application to Mount Hermon.
External links
- [Seme]. ANC Biography.
- ["Native Union"]. Article by Seme, in Imvo Zabantsundu, October 24, 1911.
- ["Formation of the African National Congress, 1912"]. Compiled by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.
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