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Robert Sobukwe

South African black nationalist leader
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Born:
Dec. 5, 1924, Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony
Died:
Feb. 27, 1978, Kimberley, S.Af. (aged 53)

Robert Sobukwe (born Dec. 5, 1924, Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony—died Feb. 27, 1978, Kimberley, S.Af.) was a South African black nationalist leader. Sobukwe insisted that South Africa be returned to its indigenous inhabitants (“Africa for the Africans”). Charging the African National Congress with being contaminated by non-African influences, he founded the Pan-Africanist Congress in 1959 and became a leader in the Pan-African movement. Arrested in 1960, he spent the rest of his life in prison or under house arrest.

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