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Benedict Wallet Vilakazi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (483 words) |
 | Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (January 6, 1906 - October 26, 1947) was a South African Zulu poet, novelist, and educator. |
| Vilakazi split his childhood between herding the family cattleand the local mission school until the age of 10, at which point he transferred to St. Francis College, Mariannhill, a Roman Catholic monastery. |
| Vilakazi is also noted for his scholarly work on oral tradition and the Zulu and Xhosa languages, which on March 16, 1946, earned him the first Ph.D. to be won by a fl South African. |
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