📍Groutville, KwaDukuza (Stanger), KwaZulu-Natal 4450, South Africa
1898 – 1967“I was born Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli in 1898 in Southern Rhodesia but grew up in Groutville, a Zulu Christian mission community in KwaZulu-Natal, where my father had been a missionary interpreter. Groutville was a community of mission-educated Africans who occupied a peculiar position in colonial South Africa — educated, Christian, property-owning, and still subject to the racial laws that denied them political rights. I taught at the Adams College mission school and then was elected chief of the Groutville community. When I refused to resign from the African National Congress, the government deposed me from the chieftainship in 1952. I spent the rest of my life largely confined to the Groutville area under banning orders — the Nobel Peace Prize came to a man who was not permitted to travel to Oslo to receive it in person.”
🗺️ Approximate location today
📷 Location image · via Wikimedia Commons
Sources: Luthuli, A. Let My People Go (1962), McGraw-Hill; Couper, S. Albert Luthuli: Bound by Faith (2010), University of KwaZulu-Natal Press