… McCall Theal and Alfred Thomas Bryant were substantial proto-… Bryant became acquainted
with fellow researcher James Stuart, whose own findings had a pronounced effect on Bryant…

… Despite the early commitment to an optimistic melting- pot at Mariannhill, Father Bryant …
Dubbing this tome his farewell homage, Bryant did not intend to abandon his career as religious …

This study explores and discusses how in-service history educators in four Gauteng schools
reinterpret, reconstruct and re-present images of Shaka in light of their individual and …

… AT Bryant treated the amalala as a group of related tribes in a family-tree like structure, but
there is little evidence of amalala as such before Bryant's time. While Hamilton and Wright …

… Historians of the late nineteenth century such as James Stuart and Arthur Bryant also …
popularly known as the ‘Zulu wars’ or the ‘wars of Shaka’ in the 1970s until the late 1980s when …

The origin and evolution of the 19th-century Zulu Kingdom are used to examine two competing
state formation theories: Robert Carneiro’s circumscription theory and Elman Service’s …

… The archive is vivid evidence of the extent to which European (eg Stuart and Bryant) notions
of history were influenced and shaped by perceptions of African oral traditions articulated by …

In this chapter I delineate some of the terminological problems, temporal complications, and
methodological challenges of enquiry into the southern African past before European …

Abstract: Early American history and early Southern African history have much to offer one
another, but signal debates in one field go unnoticed in the other. Both fields have witnessed …

The long southern African past before the advent of European colonialism remains neglected
despite powerful post-apartheid impulses of various kinds for its recovery and celebration. …