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Title:The Queen's Bishop: a convert's memoir of John W. Colenso
Author:Mokoena, HloniphaISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:Journal of Religion in Africa
Volume:38
Issue:3
Pages:312-342
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:bishops
missionary history
religious conversion
About persons:John William Colenso (1814-1883)ISNI
Magema M. Fuze (ca. 1840-1922)ISNI
External link:https://doi.org/10.1163/157006608X323513
Abstract:John William Colenso, the Bishop of Natal, became a notorious theological and colonial figure in South Africa. His life and career are well documented, but his converts' views have hardly featured in these commentaries and biographies. Magema M. Fuze's published series 'Ukutunywa kukaSobantu' provides an alternative account of Colenso's career as a missionary bishop. In a series of articles published in the Zulu-English newspaper 'Ilanga lase Natal', Fuze sketched a portrait of Colenso that reflected his personal history as Colenso's convert, an 'Ekukhanyeni' resident and also his aspiration to be a 'kholwa' intellectual and a historian. Bibiogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]

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