Pixley ka Isaka Seme (Image source: South African History Online)

Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, a South African lawyer, founder and president of the African National Congress, was born on October 1 1881, in the colony of Natal. Little to no information about his early life is documented. Pixley attended Adams College, where he completed his studies before moving to the United States of America at seventeen. He graduated from the Mount Hermon School in 1902 before getting into Columbia University, where he made a memorable speech in 1906 titled The Regeneration of Africa. According to Ngqulunga Bongani, in The Man Who Founded The ANC: A Biography of Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, Pixley was bankrupt when he died in 1951, and his political career was struggling immensely.

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https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/pixley-ka-isaka-seme
Ngqulunga Bongani, The Man Who Founded The ANC: A Biography of Pixley Ka Isaka Seme (Cape Town : Penguin Books, 2017).