An important aspect of Julian Cobbing's radical critique of the 'mfecane'as the pivotal
concept of the history of southern Africa in the nineteenth century is the claim that the image …

In a series of papers and articles beginning in 1983, Julian Cobbing has offered a radical,
and often provocative, critique of the'mfecane'as the pivotal concept of the history of the …

Through an examination of key aspects of the historical processes of the making of the
image of the early nineteenth-century Zulu king, Shaka, this study offers a new perspective …

The demythologizing of the first Zulu king, Shaka, for long the Attila of Africa in popular
historical writings,'and his reconstitution, is the aim of the three texts reviewed here. They …

If ever South Africa could boast of a Robinson Crusoe of her own, as affable, shrewd,
politically sagacious, courageous and large-hearted as Defoe's, here is one to life…“Mr …

What has happened to Thomas Mofolo's Chaka in the literary history of Southern Africa is
strangely prefigured by what happened to the actual, historical Shaka in the written history of …

Olden Times in Zululand and Natal… depends primarily on tribal lore garnered during four
decades of exhaustive interviews with native elders.…[I] t is safe to say [Bryant's] work will …

If Julian Cobbing is right in his contention that the root causes of the mfecane lie not in
Zululand but in disruptive forces emanating from Mozambique and the Cape, then rethinking …

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 …

By the 1970s the mfecane had become one of the most widely abused terms in southern
African historical literature. Let the reader attempt a simple definition of the mfecane, for …