Inanda Seminary

Founded by the American Board of Missions (ABM) in 1869, it became the first secondary school exclusively for African girls in southern Africa. It soon attracted students from across the continent. The Seminary represented a model that was replicated and implemented more widely in the later 19th century and early 20th century at rural missions in Natal and beyond. American missionaries Daniel and Lucy Lindley opened the school to train girls to be teachers and ‘good wives’ for the young men being trained at Adams College in Amanzimtoti. After the departure of the Lindley family in 1873, the school was entrusted to the Rev. James Dube, father of Dr John L Dube.