Jabavu

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Jabavu is a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu, Bantu political activist and author
John Tengo Jabavu (1859–1921), South African writers and political activist
Noni Jabavu (1919–2008), South African writer and journalist

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu was a South African educationist and politician, and a founder of the All African Convention (AAC), which sought to unite all non-European opposition to the segregationist measure of the South African government. He was the eldest son of political activist and pioneering newspaper editor John Tengo Jabavu, and the father of Noni Jabavu, one of the first African female writers and journalists.

John Tengo Jabavu was a political activist and the editor of South Africa's first newspaper to be written in Xhosa.

Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was a South African writer and journalist, one of the first African women to pursue a successful literary career and the first black South African woman to publish books of autobiography. Educated in Britain from the age of 13, she became the first African woman to be the editor of a British literary magazine when in 1961 she took on the editorship of The New Strand, a revived version of The Strand Magazine, which had closed in 1950.

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