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Where much previous work has focused on individual African thinkers, this approach allows us to see a collective intellectual community co-creating foundational ideas that grounded new intellectual and political responses to colonialism. I demonstrate this by examining changing discourse among early Xhosa intellectuals, journalists, and political activists writing in these papers. I examine how early discourse from missionary-educated Xhosa communities shifted from a focus on spiritual concerns to political engagement, revealing a surprisingly early reorientation from \u2018other worldly\u2019 to \u2018worldly\u2019 concerns and sources of power. 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