S//AFRICA: A bond that must never be broken (4)
Synthesised from 2 African sources
The third African to attend Cambridge University was Jan Christian Smuts, a white Afrikaner South African, who studied Law, graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1894, and who later became Field Marshal and Prime Minister of Apartheid South Africa.
Permit me to mention the fact that a black South African by the name of Pixly Ka Isaka Seme, who was a Zulu, studied Law and graduated from Jesus College, Oxford University in 1910, after studying at Colombia University in the United States.
To hear such sentiments from ignorant and misguided individuals who are more familiar with the streets and the ghetto than a university lecture hall, and who know nothing about the history of their own struggle and those African nations, including Nigeria, that contributed so much to it, is bad enough, but hearing it from a senior South African government official that should know better is a heavy blow to the gut which has left many of us in pain.
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