Noni Jabavu

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. Quotes The mores that I was used to were neither purely Western nor purely Bantu. We were not ‘black Europeans’, yet I saw how we were not ‘white Bantu’ either. Indeed how can they help being so, forced as they are by the present political dispensation to observe us from a distance, which distorts and throws little light on our lives as we live them? External links Category:Memoirists from South Africa Category:Autobiographers from South Africa Category:Journalists from South Africa Category:Women authors from South Africa Category:1919 births Category:2008 deaths Category:Women born in the 1910s