The so-called 'mfecane'has been explained in many ways by historians, but never
adequately. Julian Cobbing has absolved the Zulu of culpability for ongoing regional …

The 'mfecane'is a characteristic product of South African liberal history used by the apartheid
state to legitimate South Africa's racially unequal land division. Some astonishingly selective …

The unresolved debate on the mfecane in southern African history has been marked by
general acceptance of the proposition that large-scale loss of life and disruption of settled …

Around 1850 the peoples of central Africa from Duala to the Kunene River and from the
Atlantic to the Great Lakes shared a common view of the universe and a common political …

The accounts of the Difaqane written in all the major histories of South Africa are based on
three books which were written over fifty years ago: GW Stow, The Native Races of South …

More than twenty years ago-for reasons in which chance now seems to have played a
considerable part–I began a major study of the European partition of West Africa in the later …

A guide for interpreting the mfecane's role in history Was the mfecane a figment of historians'
imagination as Julian Cobbing contends? How large a responsibility do Shaka and the Zulu …

The Yangekori Rebellion was among the earliest extensive uprisings within Africa to be
reported in European documents. This rebellion, which lasted for more than a decade …

Most histories seek to understand modern Africa as a troubled outcome of nineteenth
century European colonialism, but that is only a small part of the story. In this celebrated …

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians
and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the …