Jan or Dyani Tzatzoe (Tshatshu)
(circa 1791-active 1839), Leader of the Xhosa nationSitter in 2 portraits
Born into a Xhosa royal family in the eastern Cape region of South Africa, Tzatzoe was an African chief, missionary, traveller and cultural intermediary. As a missionary with the support of Reverend Read, who helped raise him from childhood, he flourished in the European world. During a two year trip, he travelled to Great Britain, acting as a cultural ambassador interacting with both worlds to help the African and European worlds merge into a new South Africa. During his leadership he witnessed the arrival of and entrenchment of European colonialism. Despite his resistance, he was to become an oppressed subject of harsh British Colonial rule.
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