Excerpt from The Creation of Half-Broken People by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Of course there was other issue in the Good lineage, but the genealogy of the Good Family has since 1815 primarily focused on the John B. Goods.

Collectively, the Good Family used the considerable accumulated wealth and knowledge of the John B. Goods to further the study of Africa by creating the Good Foundation and building the Good Museum and the Good Library. The Good Museum and the Good Library situated, along with the Good Foundation, on the evergreen campus of a prestigious university, house the greatest collection of artefacts and manuscripts from and about Africa in the world. As a way of giving back to a continent that had given them so much, the Good Family established the Foulata (later known as Fulatha) Scholarship for students from the African continent who wanted to obtain their higher education overseas. The scholarship itself is liberal, and nothing much is asked of the scholars except that they excel in their chosen studies and emulate the generosity and self-sacrifice of the woman for whom the scholarship is named: Foulata. Foulata gave her own life for that of the second John B. Good.

Needless to say, the myriad contributions and many good works of the Good Family are unsurpassed

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