Mfecane Aftermath
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- Publisher:
- Wits University Press
- Publication date:
- May 2019
- January 1995
- ISBN:
- 9781868146994
- 9781868142521
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- Subjects:
- Area Studies, African Studies, History, African History
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- Area Studies, African Studies, History, African History
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Book description
The idea that the period of social turbulence in the nineteenth century was a consequence of the emergence of the powerful Zulu kingdom under Shaka has been written about extensively as a central episode of southern African history. Considerable dynamic debate has focused on the idea that this period - the ‘mfecane’ left much of the interior depopulated, thereby justifying white occupation. One view is that ‘the time of troubles’ owed more to the Delagoa Bay Slave trade and the demands of the labourhungry Cape colonists than to Shaka’s empire building. But is there sufficient evidence to support the argument?The Mfecane Aftermath investigates the very nature of historical debate and examines the uncertain foundations of much of the previous historiography.
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