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Oberlin-Inanda: The Life and Times of John L. Dube Tuesday, November 9, 2004 John Dube (1871-1946) - the co-founder and first President of the African National Congress (1912-1917) - was also a pioneer educator, a journalist, a novelist, a musician and a pastor of the Congregational Church. With a U.S. education in the 19th century, he planted the seeds of a black intellectual and political revolution with the opening of the Ohlange Institute in 1900 (inspired by Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee), the launching of Ilanga Lase Natal (the cirst secular Zulu newspaper) in 1903, and the promotion of a Black literary culture in Natal The film with be followed by a discussion with Professor Keita
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