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 '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 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 …

This article considers the marginalization of precolonial history from mainstream Africanist
scholarship in recent decades, and argues that this can be understood in the context of a …

In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in
fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and …

This book argues that Frican behaviour, often puzzling to outsiders, is shaped by ideas
which have historical roots stretching back for many centuries. It is therefore both a history …

Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously
read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the …

In recent years Julian Cobbing has advanced a wide‐ranging critique of the concept of the
Mfecane in southern, central and east African history. The Mfecane, he has maintained, was …

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 …

Résumé La notion de mfecane, généralement considérée comme une série de guerres et
de migrations déclenchées sur la plupart du territoire sud-africain par l'expansion du …