The history and historiography of the Amamfengu of the Eastern Cape, 1820-1900

Title: The history and historiography of the Amamfengu of the Eastern Cape, 1820-1900
Creator: Maxengana, Nomalungisa Sylvia
Subject: Fingo (African people) -- History Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- History
Date: 2018
Type: Thesis
Type: Doctoral
Type: PhD (History)
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/17872
Identifier: vital:41624
Description: The name '' amaMfengu '' refers not to any specific African people, but is an umbrella term used up to the present day as a collective designation for amaHlubi, amaBhele, amaZizi and other chiefdoms and individuals who fled KwaZulu-Natal in the time of King Tshaka (1818 - 1828) and found refuge in the lands of the Xhosa King Hintsa. Despite their diverse origins, the shared historical experience of the various Mfengu groups provided them with a common identity and a common destiny. Their dire situation as refugees inclined them to mission Christianity which led, in turn, to alliance with the British Empire followed ultimately by rejection from the racist settler regime of the Cape Colony. All these traumatic events took place within a period of eighty years, and it is these eighty years which will be the focus of this dissertation
Format: 196 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: University of Fort Hare
Publisher: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Language: English
Rights: University of Fort Hare

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