ALFRED B. XUMA

One can nowhere find more faithful and sincere champions of the Bantu cause than Don Jabavu, Charlotte Manye Maxeke, John L. Dube and others, all of them Africans trained overseas. These people are well educated, civilised, and, above all, cultured. They more fully appreciate their people's aspirations as well as their limitations because they themselves have a broader outlook and wider experience than their compatriots trained in South Africa. They plead the cause of the Bantu with dignity and consideration. They have a sincere and heartfelt sympathy for their backward brother and would like to see him rise up to their own level, at least, in outlook. They voice his legitimate claims and interpret his wishes to the whiye man intelligently and rationally. These people are really the safest bridge for race contact in the present state of race relations in South Africa. Their record is, therefore, a complete refutation of this false, misleading, and malicious statement that education overseas "deracialises' the African.

-A.B. Xuma, "Medical Thinking and the Bantu", Umteteli wa Bantu, September 7, 1929.