Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

Description: (South African Novelist)
Zulu poet and novelist Benedict Wallet Vilakazi went down in history as the first Black from South Africa to earn a PhD. Initially a teacher, he assisted in compiling a Zulu-English dictionary and also spent most of his life in developing the Zulu language and research and teaching associated with it.

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Birthday January 6, 1906 (Capricorn)
Born In KwaDukuza, South Africa
Died on October 26, 1947
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