Early Life
Dube was born in Natal at the Inanda mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM), a branch of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. His father, the Rev. James Dube, was one of the first ordained African pastors of the AZM. Dube began his formal education in Inanda and Adams College, Amanzimtoti. In 1887 he left for the United States of America where he studied at Oberlin College.
Dube was born of royal lineage and was by right a chief of the Qadi tribe. Because of Dube's father's conversion to Christianity by early missionaries in pre-republic South Africa, he did not rule over his Qadi people. Dube's name was actually Ngcobo, who have the chieftaincy of the Qadi people of the Zulu.
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