Noni Jabavu
(1919-2008)
South African writer and journalist
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Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu (20 August 1919 – 19 June 2008) 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 of autobiography. Educated in Britain from the age of 13, she became the first African woman to be the editor of a British literary magazine when in 1961 she took on the editorship of The New Strand, a revived version of The Strand Magazine, which had closed in 1950.
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20 August 1919 Middledrift
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| Died |
1 June 2008 (aged 88) Lynette Elliott's frail care in Selborne, East London
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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