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John Langalibalele Dube

1871 - 1946

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John Langalibalele Dube OLG (22 February 1871 – 11 February 1946) was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), which became the African National Congress in 1923. He was an uncle to Dr Pixley ka Isaka Seme, with whom he founded SANNC. Dube served as the president of SANNC between 1912 and 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Langalibalele Dube has received more than 251,995 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John Langalibalele Dube is the 5,631st most popular writer, the 159th most popular biography from South Africa and the 16th most popular South African Writer.

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  • 16

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Langalibalele Dube ranks 5,631 out of 5,755. Before him are Owen Barfield, Colum McCann, John Perry Barlow, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Karel Schoeman, and James Cooke Brown. After him are Christoph Ransmayr, Sarah Moore Grimké, Robert Hughes, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, and Hammond Innes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, John Langalibalele Dube ranks 151. Before him are Manuel Gondra, Reginald Aldworth Daly, Yoshioka Yayoi, Clarence Hudson White, Thalia Flora-Karavia, and Poul Heegaard. After him are Edmund Breese, Arthur Surridge Hunt, Jack Butler Yeats, Henry Stephenson, James Weldon Johnson, and Newton D. Baker. Among people deceased in 1946, John Langalibalele Dube ranks 197. Before him are Vincent Youmans, Harlan F. Stone, Adriaan van Maanen, Edgar Syers, Lionel Atwill, and Booth Tarkington. After him are Jeanie MacPherson, João Sassetti, Miles Mander, Helen Bannerman, Florence Turner, and Gifford Pinchot.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, John Langalibalele Dube ranks 159 out of 374. Before him are Eddie Keizan (1944), Richard Borcherds (1959), Marjorie Clark (1909), Glynis Barber (1955), Ilana Kloss (1956), and Karel Schoeman (1939). After him are Thomas Shardelow (1931), Ahmed Kathrada (1929), Beyers Naudé (1915), Sol Plaatje (1876), Bram Fischer (1908), and Gordon Hodgson (1904).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, John Langalibalele Dube ranks 16. Before him are Deon Meyer (1958), Alan Paton (1903), Ingrid Jonker (1933), Elisabeth Eybers (1915), Elsa Joubert (1922), and Karel Schoeman (1939). After him are Antjie Krog (1952), Athol Fugard (1932), Bessie Head (1937), Damon Galgut (1963), Fatima Meer (1928), and Lauren Beukes (1976).

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