The “mfecane” was a notion that existed virtually unchallenged in the imaginations of large
numbers of people, including virtually all academic historians of southern Africa, from the …

The notion of the “mfecane” was one that existed virtually unchallenged in the imaginations
of large numbers of people, including virtually all academic historians of southern Africa …

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 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 …

T Zulu state, as a time of dispersal, famine and human suffering. Scholars in the twentieth
century have characterized the Shakan era as the mfecane, a term standardized by historian …

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 …