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Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change-one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped foster the merging of African and European worlds into a new South African reality. Yet, by the 1860's, despite his determined resistance, he was an oppressed subject of harsh British colonial rule. In this innovative, richly researched, and splendidly written biography, Roger S. Levine reclaims Tzatzoe's lost story and analyzes his contributions to, and experiences with, the turbulent colonial world to argue for the crucial role of Africans as agents of cultural and intellectual change.

Xhosa (African people) --- Missionaries --- Christian biography --- Social change --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Christian life --- Christianity --- Christians --- Church biography --- Ecclesiastical biography --- Biography --- Religious biography --- Amaxosa (African people) --- Kāpiri (African people) --- Koosa (African people) --- Xosa --- Xosa (African people) --- Ethnology --- Nguni (African people) --- Kings and rulers --- History --- Tzatzoe, Jan, --- Political and social views. --- South Africa --- Africa, South --- Colonization. --- Ethnic relations