Udingiswayo Kajobe (The Story of Dingiswayo-Zulu) by Benedict Wallet Vilakazi - 1939

E-161: The Sheldon Press. Good+. 1939. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Sheldon Press, London, UK. 1939. 220 pgs. Text in Zulu. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards (corners and extremities lightly bumped and rubbed) No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (6 January 1906 – 26 October 1947) was a South African Zulu poet, novelist, and educator. In 1946, he became the first black South African to receive a Ph. D. Vilakazi Street in Soweto is named after him and it is now famous as the place where both Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu once lived. Benedict Vilakazi was born Bambatha kaMshini in 1906 at the Groutville Mission Station near KwaDukuza, Natal (now South Africa) , the fifth child of Christian converts Mshini ka Makhwatha and Leah Hlongwane: Mrs Leah Hlongwane Vilakazi, the daughter of Bangile who was the sister of Queen Ngqambuza, wife to Mpande ka Cetshwayo, and also the sister of the Right Reverend J Mdelwa Hlongwane ka Mnyaziwezulu, the son of Chief Matiwane. E-161; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages .