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Noni Jabavu
Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu (20 August 1919〔According to one obituary, "Most of the biographical sketches of Jabavu list her year of birth as 1919, but one book, ''Women Writing Africa: the Southern Region'', gives it as 1920." ("Noni Jabavu, Author of Drawn in Colour, Dies at 88" ), Books, ''Times Live'', 19 June 2008.〕-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.〔Victoria Boynton and Jo Malin (eds), (''Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography. 2. K – Z'' ), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005, p. 20.〕〔 Educated in Britain from the age of 13, she became the first African woman to be the editor of a British literary magazine when in 1961 she took on the editorship of ''The New Strand'', a revived version of ''The Strand Magazine'', which had closed in 1950.〔Gcina Ntsaluba, ("Call to restore Noni Jabavu legacy", ) ''Daily Dispatch'', 31 January 2013.〕
In the words of poet Makhosazana Xaba: "One only has to read her two books (''Drawn in Colour'' and ''The Ochre People'') to realize just how skilled she was as a memoirist. Her journalistic column editorials demonstrate a reflective style that must have been unusual for her times. While interviewing Wally Serote who was living in Botswana during the same time as Noni, I learned something that confirmed my initial thoughts on her. 'We men, she said, did not know how to relate to her (Noni). She was a woman living far ahead of our times.' This speaks volumes considering Serote himself is a world-wise literary and cultural giant."
==Biography==
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