Charlotte Maxeke: The mother of black freedom
In the second half of this essay by Panashe Chigumadzi, we see the full flowering of Charlotte Maxeke
25 April 2021 - 00:00
In 1930, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in America commissioned Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma, an AME Church member and future president-general of the ANC, to write a "biographical sketch" of Charlotte Maxeke as a tribute to her achievements in religious and social activism: Charlotte Manye (Mrs Maxeke): What an Educated African Girl Can Do...
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