Tiyo Soga
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Gender | Female |
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Born | South Africa |
Date of died | August 12,1871 |
Died | Cape Colony |
Books | The journal and selected writings of the Reverend Tiyo Soga |
Children | John Henderson Soga |
Allan Kirkland Soga | |
Siblings | Festiri Soga |
Tause Soga | |
Job | Missionary |
Journalist | |
Education | University of Glasgow |
Spous | Janet Soga, née Burnside |
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ID | 1324058 |
Tiyo Soga Life story
Tiyo Soga was a Xhosa journalist, minister, translator, missionary evangelist, and composer of hymns. Soga was the first black South African to be ordained and worked to translate the Bible and John Bunyan's classic work Pilgrim's Progress into his native Xhosa language.