Sol Plaatje: a life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932

In: Reconsiderations in Southern African history

Abstract

Beginnings to 1894 -- 'Full of pleasant anticipations': Kimberley, 1894-1898 -- 'The essential interpreter': Mafeking, 1898-1899 -- The siege of Mafeking, 1899-1900 -- After the siege, 1900-1902 -- Editor of Koranta ea becoana, 1902-1904 -- Koranta ea becoana and after, 1905-1910 -- Tsala ea becoana, the South African Native National Congress and the Land Act of 1913 -- Appealing to empire: England, 1914-1916 -- 'A full-fledged scholar': England, 1916-1917 -- Back home: South Africa, 1917-1919 -- Overseas again: England, 1919-1920 -- 'A wild goose chase'? Canada and the United States, 1920-1922 -- Too long away, England 1922-1923 -- The 1920s: a leader without a people? -- Setswana -- Mhudi -- So much still to do.