The conversation brought to mind Sobukwe’s address on behalf of the graduating class at the SA Native College (later renamed as University College of Fort Hare) delivered at the completers’ social event in 1949.
The then 24-year-old Sobukwe noted that, if the trustees of Fort Hare were serious about making the college an “African college or university”, the institution would have to become “the centre of African studies to which students should come from all over Africa”.