Editorial

Author: Berghahn Journals Chris  

Publisher: Berghahn Books

E-ISSN: 1558-5816|64|153|v-xi

ISSN: 0040-5817

Source: Theoria, Vol.64, Iss.153, 2017-12, pp. : v-xi

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Abstract

The contributions to this Special Issue respond to a call last yearfor papers to commemorate the Centenary Anniversary of the Universityof Fort Hare. This historically advantaged university, thefirst for black Africans in Southern Africa, which taught manyleaders of various African nationalist struggles, was established in1916 under the Inter-State Native College Scheme led by liberalnews editor JT Jabavu, which responded to a prior Africanist schemeled by WB Rubusana. Support for Jabavu’s scheme was stoked byfears of ‘Ethiopian’ separatist churches in the early 1900s and bythe radicalisation of black students who were going abroad to studyat various African American colleges when denied entrance athome. Fearful white funding helped the scheme to overtake Rubusana’srival Queen Victoria Memorial Scheme, which was supportedby Cecil John Rhodes. Of late imperialist support forseparate African institutions, as opposed to integrative institutions,the significance is prescient.