Sam Nolutshungu
Author
1945 – 1997
Who was Sam Nolutshungu?
Samuel Clement Nolutshungu was one of the foremost South African scholars, and an internationally acclaimed expert on South African politics.
Born in King William's Town in 1945, he studied first in the Lovedale High School and after in the University of Fort Hare. Because of apartheid he left in the 1960s South Africa for England, and thanks to a scholarship went to Keele University where he obtained a first class degree in economics, history and politics. He successively taught in the Government Department of Manchester University between 1978 and 1990. From 1991 till his death he was professor of political science and African politics at the University of Rochester, and since 1995 also acting director of the University's Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies.
In December 1996 he had been offered the most important position in the South African university system, the vice-chancellorship of the University of the Witwatersrand, but was forced to turn down the offer on January due to a cancer that brought to his death in Rochester on 12 August.
Nolutshungu produced a high number of significant articles, and published three books.
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- Born
- Apr 15, 1945
South Africa - Also known as
- Sam C. Nolutshungu
- Nationality
- South Africa
- Education
- Keele University
- Died
- Aug 12, 1997
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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