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Friday, February 18, 2022

University of Cape Town, South Africa - Revive Tatamkhulu Afrika’s works and contributions, says Ottoman scholar

Title:
Revive Tatamkhulu Afrika’s works and contributions, says Ottoman scholar
 
Author:
Helen Swingler 

Published:
University of Cape Town, 16 February 2022
 
From the news article:
South African poet and writer Ismail Joubert (1902–2002) went by many legal names. There was his birth name, Mogamed Fu’ad Nasif, given by his Egyptian father and Turkish mother; his adoptive “Methodist” name, John Charlton; foster name Jozua Joubert (before he converted to Islam and took the name Ismail) and the one uMkhonto we Sizwe gave him: Tatamkhulu Afrika. It was the name he loved most.