Tiyo Soga

Tiyo Soga

Tiyo Soga (1829 – August 12 1871) was a South African journalist, minister, translator and composer of hymns. He translated John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" into Xhosa, and also helped translate the Bible [http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/soga.htm] .

Soga was born in Tyume, Cape Colony, and attended a mission school and was later educated at Lovedale. He also studied at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and qualified as a teacher and then as a minister. He became the first Xhosa to be ordained in the Christian ministry in 1856 in the Scottish Presbyterian Church. He went on to serve as a minister at Mgwali from 1857 to 1868, and at Tutura from 1868 until his death there in 1871 [http://www.dacb.org/stories/southafrica/soga4_tiyo.html] .

External links

* [http://pzadmin.pitzer.edu/masilela/presxhos/tsoga/tsogaS.htm A short essay on Tiyo Soga]


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