Africa Rise And Shine

The South African Embassy in the United States has marked Freedom Day by honouring women's rights activist Charlotte Maxeke in addition to America's contribution to the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement. Maxeke became the first black South African woman to receive a university degree courtesy of a scholarship to study at Wilberforce University in Ohio, a private historically black university that today claims Maxeke as their daughter. It is also where she studied alongside writer W.E.B. du Bois and where she would meet her future husband before returning to South Africa. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports…