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Archibald Campbell Jordan (Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan) was born on 30 October, 1906 in Mbokothwane Mission, Pondoland, Cape Colony, is an A 20th-century south african male writer. Discover Archibald Campbell Jordan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

Popular As Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan
Occupation Novelist Academic
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 30 October 1906
Birthday 30 October
Birthplace Mbokothwane Mission, Pondoland, Cape Colony
Date of death 1968
Died Place Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Nationality Jordan

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'''Archibald Campbell Mzolisa "A.C."

1906

Jordan''' (30 October 1906 – 20 October 1968) was a novelist, literary historian and intellectual pioneer of African studies in South Africa.

He was born at the Mbokothwane Mission in the Tsolo district, Pondoland (later Transkei), the son of an Anglican church minister.

Jordan trained as a teacher at St John's College, Mthatha, completed his junior certificate at Lovedale College, Alice, and then won a scholarship to Fort Hare University College.

1934

His literary and linguistic training consisted in a BA Degree (1934), followed by a Master's thesis, submitted to the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1942, entitled "Some features of the phonetic and grammatical structure of Baca" (Bhaca), which was an important early contribution to the study of non-standard Nguni languages, specifically, of a Tekela Nguni language.

While teaching in Kroonstad (in the then Orange Free State Province) between 1934 and 1944 Jordan mastered Sotho, became president of the African Teachers' Association, and started his writing career with the publication of poetry in the newspaper Imvo Zabantsundu.

1940

He also started work on his classic Xhosa novel, Ingqumbo Yezinyanya (1940), later translated by the author and his wife, Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan, into English as The Wrath of the Ancestors (1980).

1944

After a brief stint as senior lecturer in Bantu languages at the Fort Hare University College, beginning 1944, Jordan was appointed senior lecturer in African languages at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1946.

1957

This was followed in 1957 by a doctoral degree dissertation "A Phonological and Grammatical Study of Literary Xhosa.

1960

Similarly, Carol Eastman recounted, in Johannesburg, at the "Sociolinguistics in Africa" conference organised by Bob Herbert, her inspiration for African culture and language instilled by Jordan when he taught her Xhosa at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1960s.

She said there was a "quiet sadness" about Jordan, living as he was in exile, very far from home.

1961

He worked in that capacity until September 1961.

In 1961 Jordan was offered a Carnegie bursary to do research in the United States, but was refused a passport by the South African government.

As a result of political pressure, Jordan was forced to leave South Africa on an exit permit.

He settled in America where he was appointed professor in African Languages and Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and later moved, in similar capacity, to the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

1966

While at UCT he began a new method of teaching Xhosa to non-mother tongue speakers, which he published as A Practical Course in Xhosa (1966).

1968

In 1968, Jordan died in Madison, after a long illness.

One eminent South African scholar who studied Xhosa under Jordan's guidance was the writer and academic, Vernon February.

Decades later he still testified to the enormous influence Jordan had on those students, and the inspiring and vital knowledge he imparted about Xhosa culture and language.

1973

Jordan's other important publications include a book of short stories entitled Kwezo Mpindo zeTsitsa, published in 1973 as Tales from Southern Africa, and an important pioneering critical study, entitled Towards an African Literature: The Emergence of Literary Form in Xhosa (1972).

1990

This novel, considered as one of the masterpieces of Xhosa writing and South African literature, was translated into Afrikaans as Die Toorn van die Voorvaders, published in 1990, and a Dutch translation, De Wraak van het Voorgeslacht, appearing in the classic African Writers Series in the Netherlands in 1999.

The novel tells a gripping epic-tragic tale of the conflicting forces of Western education and Xhosa traditional beliefs amongst the "School people" and the "Ochre people" of the Mpondomise people.

2004

For his creative works, his pioneering research and his sustained efforts at preserving and recording in his writing the culture and history of the Xhosa people of the Eastern Cape, the University of Port Elizabeth currently known as Nelson Mandela University (NMU) posthumously bestowed on Jordan an honorary doctorate in literature, on 24 April 2004.

2005

He was awarded posthumously the Order of Ikhamanga in Gold in 2005.

2015

In 2015 the University of Cape Town renamed the Arts Block after Jordan in recognition of his work.