Pixley ka seme biography of barack obama

1881 – 1951

First Treasurer General of the South African Native National Congress, President General of the African National Congress

Pixley ka Isaka Seme was born at the American Zulu Mission Station in Inanda in present-day KwaZulu-Natal in 1881.

He attended the local mission school where the American missionary, Reverend Stephen Pixley (after whom he was named), took an interest in him and arranged for him to go to the Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts in the United States.

He then attended Columbia University in the city of New York and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1906. He won the university's highest oratorical honour, the George William Curtis medal, for his speech The Regeneration of Africa that year.

With financial assistance from missionaries he entered Jesus College in Oxford, England, to study law.

In 1909 he gained a Bachelor's degree in Civil Law, passed his first bar examinations and was called