Preface PART 1 - LIFE1. Xhosaland: A history of confrontations 1. A
snapshot of Xhosa life in the mid eighteenth century 2. Accelerated change:
A typology of mounting conflict 3. A changing region in a changing world
3.1 Spread of Boers and British expansion 3.2 British domination and its
effects on Xhosaland and beyond 3.3 Changes from the Xhosaland perspective
3.4 Changes from the broader South African perspective
2. (Dis)Union: The world of Mabona's youth (1910 to the mid 1950s) 1.
International and Union politics 2. The economy 3. Separation - reserves -
labour 4. Transkei: Culture, religion, education 5. Resistance nationally
and in the Transkei
3. Enter Mongameli 1. Birth and first years 2. Early childhood in Qombolo
3. Life in Zigudu - Catholic background (1)
4. Ixopo - Catholic background (2) 5. Pevensey - Catholic background (3) 6.
Early priesthood
4. Italy 1. Italian society after World War II 2. Everyday life in Rome 3.
Mabona, the student and researcher 4. Further intellectual work 5. Second
Congress of Black Writers and Artists: Alioune Diop and Présence Africaine
Excursion: The journal Présence Africaine 6. Preparing for Vatican II
5. Back home? Apartheid, St. Peter's, SPOBA 1. Apartheid 2. Apartheid
education 3. The South African economy in the 1960s 4. Resistance 4.1 The
ANC and the PAC 5. Life back in South Africa 5.1 Lumko 5.2 Independent
ethnographic studies 5.3 Poetry 5.4 Lecturer at St. Peter's in Hammanskraal
6. London and Switzerland: Politics or anthropology? 1. SOAS 2. The Azanian
People's Liberation Front and other politics 3. Family life 4. Continued
research
PART 2 - WORK 1. Lux: The first impetus 2. Présence Africaine: Writing for
a wide public 3. "The depths of African philosophy" and The outlines of
African philosophy 3.1 General appraisal: South Africa's first African
philosopher? 1 4. Dissertatio ad lauream in Facultate Juris Canonici apud
Pontificiam Universitatem Urbanianam 5. "The nuclear blast of spring":
Poetry 6. Writings of a South African priest 7. Anthropology and religion
8. Interlude: The publication spurt of 1996 9. Diviners and prophets: The
last, incomplete, work 9.1 Final appraisal
Timeline Mabona primary bibliography Notes on the sources for interviews
and biography References
