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 …

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 …

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 …

The mfecane was for most of the twentieth century regarded as a historical certainty for the
South African public and the Apartheid government, as well as for historians here and world …

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 …

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 …

One of the most extraordinary features of the present assault on the Mfecane concept is the
self-induced amnesia exhibited by its proponents with regard to the historiography of pre …

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 …