A familiar talk upon my native land: and some things found there.

[Source - Benathi Marufu for FHYA, 2022: A copy of the book by John Langalibalele Dube. This thirty-five page work highlights Dube’s desire to bring agricultural and industrial reforms to his fellow indigenous Africans. This work also reflects the conflict between Dube’s ethnic roots and Christian teachings. The conflict was not restricted to Dube’s ethnicity as a Zulu. Dube was a Black African man in the segregated United States. During this time segregation and racism were powerful forces in both South Africa and the United States. Many schools were segregated and Oberlin was hardly an exception. A few years prior to Dube’s arrival, College officials expelled a Black student, Reverdy C. Ransom, for organizing a protest against segregated dining room seating arrangements.]