Xhosa journalist, minister, translator, missionary evangelist, and composer of hymns
Tiyo Soga
Tiyo Soga.
Born
1829 (1829)
Died
12 August 1871(1871-08-12) (aged 41–42)
Tutura, near Gcuwa, Xhosa Kingdom
Nationality
Xhosa
Alma mater
University of Glasgow
Occupation(s)
Journalist, minister, translator, missionary evangelist, and composer of hymns
Spouse(s)
Janet Soga, née Burnside (1857–1871)
Children
7 surviving, including Jotello Festiri Soga and Jessie Margaret Soga
Awards
Order of Ikhamanga in Gold
Tiyo Soga (1829 – 12 August 1871) 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.[1]
^"Missionaries, South Africa". Genealogy World. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
TiyoSoga (1829 – 12 August 1871) was a Xhosa journalist, minister, translator, missionary evangelist, and composer of hymns. Soga was the first black...
historical figures such as Rev. TiyoSoga, Samuel Mqhayi, Mongezi Sifika wa Nkomo, Enoch Sontonga and Jotello Festiri Soga. The Eastern Cape as a South African...
writing. Soga was the first of Mrs. Janet and Rev TiyoSoga's eight children born between 1858 and 1870. Soga was, according to his death notice and his matriculation...
met when TiyoSoga was studying theology in Glasgow. Soga's father Tiyo had been keen for his children to be educated in Scotland. After Tiyo's death in...
by Tyamzashe, was the first editor followed by Allan Kirkland Soga, a son of TiyoSoga, the pioneer missionary, hymnist and writer. Samuel E. K. Mqhayi...
September 2003. His great-grandfather was TiyoSoga, the first black South African to be ordained. "Alexander R B Soga: famous South African doctor". Arlington...
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A. C. Jordan † Gold 2005 Literature Alan Paton † Gold 2006 Literature TiyoSoga † Gold 2006 Literature Elisabeth Eybers Gold 2007 Literature (poetry)...
leaders such as King Ngqika, and his counsellor, Old Soga, the father of TiyoSoga, and Tiyo’s older brother, Festiri. Ntsikana experienced an internal...
Ethiopian movement started by 18th century African theologians such as TiyoSoga, Nehemiah Tile, Mzimba, Mangena Mokoena, James Mata Dwane and others....
version. Henry Hare Dugmore, a Methodist, translated into Xhosa language. TiyoSoga (1829–1871) was ordained the first African Presbyterian minister in 1856...
kaKhawuta) is in this town in the village of Njingini. The Reverend TiyoSoga's grave, a Xhosa man from the amaJwarha clan of the Xhosa nation; who was...
the Black community in South Africa. In 1897, Mqhayi, Allan Kirkland Soga, TiyoSoga and others launched their own newspaper, Izwi Labantu. In one of his...
20 – François Delsarte, singer and music teacher (b. 1811) August 12 – TiyoSoga, composer of hymns (b. 1829) September 3 – Václav Emanuel Horák, church...
Eastern-Ngu̇ni Clans. Longmans, Green and Company. ISBN 978-0-598-89639-1. Soga, Tiyo (1878). A page of South African Mission Work. Bhaca| AmaBhaca Media related...
finally at Brownlee Station. In 1858 he was installed as an elder in TiyoSoga's mission church at Mgwali. From 1884 until his death in 1888 he was the...
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