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Noni Jabavu was a South African writer and journalist, one of the first African women to pursue a successful literary career and the first black South African woman to publish books on her life. Her memoirs Drawn in Colour and The Ochre People have been compared to Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road. Her grandfather, John Tengo Jabavu, was a pioneer journalist and started the first black newspaper in SA in 1884. Her father, DDT Jabavu, was a journalist, academic, activist and first black professor at Fort Hare. Noni left for England at the age of 13 for her schooling and spent her life travelling, writing and becoming a cosmopolitan, free-spirited woman.
The British poet Robert Graves once said to Noni Jabavu: “Noni, you are no poet. You are an observer. I am not insulting you. An observer is an artist too. You belong in the club of artists, of which there is no high species in the human race!”
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