The conventional wisdom concerning Shaka's invasions of Mpondoland in 1824 and 1828
tends to dismiss these as cattle raids. It likewise dismisses the alignment between the 1828 …

James Stuart was employed by the Natal government to make a “compilation” describing
British military operations against a Zulu insurrection in 1906, but he took so long to …

This chapter discusses the history of Barber's sources and places them in a much broader
context by narrating how specific scientific disciplines, archival practices and politics of …

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries constituted an era of momentous change in the
South African interior. The era was characterised, among other things, by the emergence …

This dissertation is an extended essay dealing with historical productions on the late
independent era (the late “pre-colonial” epoch) of the wider KwaZulu-Natal region. The …

King offers a necessary synthesis of how archaeology, history, and anthropology have
investigated outlaws and disorder. Focusing on Africa, the chapter highlights relevant …

Carl Adolf Hoffmann is counted among the most prolific 19th-and 20th-century authors
employed by the Berlin Missionary Society in the former Transvaal, South Africa, home to the …

This paper introduces three African Lutheran pastors of the Berlin Mission Church who
during the late 1920s/early 1930s had worked with German missionary Carl Adolf Hoffmann …

After more than two decades of close scrutiny of its 'life', the archive emerges as nothing if
not paradoxical. 1 The necessary starting point of a great deal of historical work, it reveals as …

Extractive European Imperial forces often justified colonization as a crusade, bringing
civilization to a timeless and barbaric continent. One way of validating this justification was to …