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 …

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 …

This book contains a collection of twenty papers which were given at the seventeenth
Conference of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute (now the Institute of Social Research …

This is the second volume of A History of Africa, and it completes the study of the African
history from 1800 to the present. Volume I covers the period 1800-1914, while this volume …

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 …

Abstract Nigerian scholar Adekeye Adebajo's book The Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold
War centres on the 1884 1885 conference in Germany, presided over by the 'Iron …

If the Garvey phenomenon had a large hand in undermining the myth of a safeguarding
England that had prevailed from the time before Union, it is also essential to recognise that …

The outbreak of the First World War made unprecedented demands on the manpower
resources of the British East Africa Protectorate (Kenya). To meet military requirements for …

The purpose of this book is to make readily available a series of documents relating to the
history of the kingdom of Buganda from just after the middle of the nineteenth to just after the …