Tiyo Soga

Tiyo Soga was a South African Presbyterian minister, missionary, writer, and translator who became the first Black South African ordained in an established church. He served Xhosa communities and contributed to the translation of the Bible and John Bunyan’s *The Pilgrim’s Progress* into Xhosa. Soga also wrote for the newspaper *Indaba*, helping establish his importance in nineteenth-century South African religious and literary life.