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Iimbali Zamandulo - Stories of the Past (1838-1910) (Paperback)
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Iimbali Zamandulo - Stories of the Past (1838-1910) (Paperback)
Series: Publications of the Opland Collection of Xhosa Literature
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Iimbali Zamandulo – ‘Stories of the Past’– is a selection
of historical testimonies produced by Xhosa-speaking residents of
the Eastern Cape between 1838 and 1910. These narratives offer
fresh insights into the history of the Xhosa-speaking peoples,
providing their own perspectives on their own past. The volume
contains recollections reaching back to seventeenth-century
dynastic disputes, to a period preceding the southward migrations
in the early nineteenth century into territories settled by
Xhosa-speaking peoples. It passes on through those migrations, the
clashes and resettlement of peoples and of individuals, the contest
for land throughout the century, and on to the struggle for social
control and the assertion of cultural identity by the century’s
end. To a remarkable extent, we are lent intimate access here to
the lives of ordinary people, seeking better pastures for
themselves, their families and their livestock; hunting, fighting
and, above all, confronting personal conflict in their choices
between mission Christianity and ancestral beliefs; between support
for their chiefs or the colonial authorities; between active or
passive resistance to encroachment on their territory; and between
colonial distortions purveyed in the schools and their receding
grasp of their own sustaining histories.
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