Tiyo Soga
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Tiyo Soga (1829 – August 12, 1871) was a South African journalist, minister, translator and composer of hymns. He translated John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress into Xhosa, and also helped translate the Bible [1].
Soga was born in Tyume, Cape Colony, and attended a mission school and was later educated at Lovedale. He also studied at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and qualified as a teacher and then as a minister. He became the first Xhosa to be ordained in the Christian ministry in 1856 in the Scottish Presbyterian Church. He went on to serve as a minister at Mgwali from 1857 to 1868, and at Tutura from 1868 until his death there in 1871 [2].
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