Pixley Ka Isaka Seme

One of the best speeches or essays by a African before coming of the famous speech "i havea dream" by Martin Luther king Jr.There dream was already there nd is in this speech tittled regeneration of africa by Pixley ka Isaka Seme that you will get a sense that speech of Martin Luther king was inspired by the speech of Pixley Ka Isaka Seme

Seme was born in the area that would come to be known as Daggakraal,in what was then called the Colony of Natal , at the Inanda mission station of the American Zulu Mission of the 

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions . He graduated from Mount Hermon School, MA, in 1902 (now the Northfield Mount Hermon School ). He attended Adams College which was part of the mission. His mother was a sister of John Langalibalele Dube , and descended from a local chief.  At 17 years of age Seme left to study in the U.S., first at the Mount Hermon School and then Columbia University . In 1906, his senior year at University, he was awarded the Curtis Medal, Columbia's highest oratorical honor. He subsequently decided to become an attorney . In October 1906 he was admitted to Oxford University to read for the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law ; while at Oxford he was a member of Jesus College. Seme returned to South Africa in 1910, and began to practice as a lawyer in Johannesburg