Lawo Magugu

Lawo Magugu
Author: Pathisa Nyathi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2000
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Voices from the Rocks

Voices from the Rocks
Author: T. O. Ranger
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780852556047

The Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe have been occupied by humanity for some 40,000 years. They are the home for a number of shrines, and have become a scene of symbolic, ideological, political and armed conflict between the Shona, Ndebele and Europeans for more than 100 years. Many questions in Matopos history are crucial to the history of Matabeleland as a whole, and some central to the history of Zimbabwe: the right relationship of men and women to the land; the nature of culture; the dynamics of ethnicity; the roots of dissidence and violence; and the historical bases of underdevelopment. North America: Indiana U Press; Zimbabwe: Baobab JOINT WINNER OF THE TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE 2001

A Place in the World

A Place in the World
Author: Axel Harneit-Sievers
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004492232

Local histories, written and published by non-academic historians, constitute a rapidly expanding genre in contemporary non-Western societies. However, academic historians and anthropologists usually take little notice of them. This volume takes a comparative look at local historical writing. Thirteen case studies, set in seven different countries of sub-Saharan Africa, India and Nepal, examine the authors, their books and their audiences. From different perspectives, they analyse the genre's intellectual roots, its relationship to oral historical narratives, and its relevance and impact in local and wider arenas. Local histories, it turns out, pursue a variety of agendas. They (re)construct local and communal identities affected by rapid social change. Often, they (re)write history as part of cultural and political struggles. Openly or implicitly, all of them place local communities on the map of the world at large.

Lozikeyi Dlodlo

Lozikeyi Dlodlo
Author: Marieke Clarke
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0797442669

In 1999, a defiant 76-year old Mr Stanley Mhlanga confronted the Zimbabwean Forestry Commission. He claimed that Queen Lozikeyi had given his people the land from which they had been evicted. Who was this woman, an inspiration to an old man 80 years after her death? Queen Lozikeyi was the senior queen of Lobhengula, king of the Ndebele people in what is now Zimbabwe. Her early life has been wreathed in mystery, but now at last her story can be told. This book is one of the first studies of a woman who led her people while the British colonial power occupied her country. She was the intellect behind one of the most effective anti-colonial revolts. Queen Lozikeyi continues to be an inspiration to Zimbabweans today. Queen Lozikeyi, as an Ndebele royal woman, interited a strong constitutional position from Nguni royal foremothers in Zululand. This study shows how Lobhengula's senior queen and other Ndebele royal women uses their power.

Zambezia

Zambezia
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2004
Genre: Africa, Central
ISBN:

Alvord Mabena

Alvord Mabena
Author: Pathisa Nyathi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2000
Genre: Ndebele (African people)
ISBN: