Mdani Xaba

Mdani Xaba was born in Willowvale District, South Africa in 1887. He received his BA from Lincoln University in 1915. According to a 1916 divinity school publication, he left Yale during the winter recess of 1915. From 1916 to 1919, Xaba studied at the University of Edinburgh and may have received a BA and BD there. An ordained minister, he served as moderator of the Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa. His son-in-law was the Zimbabwean author and poet Solomon Mutswairo.