Writer Archives - Page 13 of 238

Nokutela Dube

South African political activist, educationist, and musician

Eileen O’Faolain

Irish political activist and children’s book author

Eileen O’Casey

Irish actress and author

Pauline Podbrey

South African Communist activist

Mohegan medicine woman, anthropologist, author, elder and tribal council member Gladys Tantaquidgeon co-founded the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum, the oldest to be owned and operated by Native Americans, in 1931.

Noni Jabavu

Pioneering South African writer

Phyllis Altman

As the secretary-general of the IDAF, Altman ran various secret operations to send money into South Africa to pay for lawyers in anti-apartheid cases.

Nontsizi Mgqwetho

Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of which appeared in the Johannesburg newspaper Umteleli wa Bantu between 1920 and 1929.