page_title: John Langalibalele Dube
section_title: Educator
hierarchical_section_title: John Langalibalele Dube / Educator
caption_attribution_description: English: Mid 1930s John and Angelina Dube with l to r Nomagugu-Joan Lulu-James Sipho -Douglas Sobanto from First President: A Life of John Dube, Founding President of the ANC By Heather Hughes
context_page_description: John Langalibalele Dube was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress, which became the African National Congress in 1923. Dube served as SANNC president between 1912 and 1917. He was brought to America by returning missionaries and attended Oberlin Preparatory Academy. He returned to South Africa, where in 1903 he and his first wife, Nokutela Dube, founded a newspaper, what is now Ilanga lase Natal.
  in 1901, he founded the Inanda Seminary Institute for Girls at Ohlanga. he also wanted blacks to go into business.In 1903, he founded the isiZulu newspaper Ilanga.In 1930, John Dube published "Shaka's Body Servant." He also wrote about the lives of Zulu rulers, including King Dinizulu.
  He was a conservative politician. His ANC was not a militant party of the 1960s. But he never lost sight of two things:
  human rights, and the need for Africans to stand together. That was the message John Langalibalele Dube was preaching until he died in 1946.
context_section_description: Dube was also an educator, a speaker of note on the circuit engaging whites in lectures around the country. In 1901 he and his first wife, Nokutela Dube, founded the Zulu Christian Industrial School which is now the Ohlange High School at Ohlange, near Phoenix and EkuPhakameni. This was the first educational institution in South Africa to be founded by black people. He gave lecturers by invitation and he was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy as a result. His role as an educator has been less documented, but he held and proposed views on education and culture that were to be used in inimical ways by the Apartheid government when it came into power in 1948 and legislating the Bantu Education Act. Dube had identified the need to combine Western education with local customs and traditions, all grounded in broad African communal behaviour. His theories on education are found in both Ukuziphatha and Isita.
caption: Mid 1930s John and his second wife Angelina Dube with (l. to r.) Nomagugu, Joan Lulu, James Sipho and Douglas Sobanto.
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