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Mfecane

The Mfecane was a historical period of heightened military conflict and migration associated with state formation and expansion in Southern Africa. It resulted from the complex interplay of pre-existing trends of political centralisation with the effects of international trade, environmental instability, and European colonisation. The exact range of…

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The Mfecane in the East

Delagoa BayTembeMabhuduAbakwaDlaminiSwazi Kingdom
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The Mfecane in the Interior

SanDutch Cape ColonyOrange RiverBatswanaCape Colony
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Consequences for Nguni societies

Khumalo clanBoersNdebelePretoriaMatabeleland
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Controversy

Rhodes UniversityJulian CobbingApartheidSlave tradersMozambique
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The Mfecane in the East

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related to Sources · 52
Mfecane → African History, African Studies, Archived, Bernard, Cambridge, Cambridge History, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Journal, Carolyn, Conflict, East, Eldredge, Elizabeth, Epprecht, February, From Early Times, Hamilton, Historical Sociology, History, In Mbenga
related to The Mfecane in the Interior · 29
Mfecane → Arriving, Bahurutshe Chiefdom, Balobedu, Bamphahlele, Bangwaketse, Bataung, Batlhaping, Batswana, Bolstered, Cape Colony, Central Southern Africa, Dutch Cape Colony, Free State, From, Khoekhoe, Korana, Magakala, Marico River, Maroteng, Masemola
related to Controversy · 23
Mfecane → According, Afrikaner, Black-on-Black, Cape Colony, Cobbing, Cobbing Controversy, Cobbing's, Dan Wylie, Delagoa Bay, European, In, Instead, Isaacs, Julian Cobbing, Many, Mozambique, Portuguese, Rhodes University, The, This
has cause · 12
Mfecane → Conquest, European, Faced, Here, Political, Southeastern Africa, State, The, The Mfecane, Though, Wealth, Whereas
related to The Mfecane in the East · 7
Mfecane → Delagoa Bay, Mabhudu-Tembe, Southern Africa, Swazi Kingdom, Tembe, The, The Mfecane

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kingdom north river zulu trade political tswana region ndwandwe also state southern africa polities people cape groups griqua ndebele shaka

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Delagoa Bayinstance ofThe increasing economic pull of the international slave trade also incentivised greater warfare and disruption between polities close to international ports0.80text
the amaNgwane were driven back by forceinstance ofSome of them0.80text
defeatedinstance ofSome of them0.80text
Nathaniel Isaacsinstance ofAmong those involved in these invasions were European adventurers0.80text
Isaacs had exaggerated the brutality of the Mfecane to justify European colonialism.Cobbing's hypothesis generated an immense volume of polemics among historiansinstance ofwho argued that colonial-era white writers0.80text
Mfecanehas causeThe Mfecane0.60section
Mfecanehas causeEuropean0.60section
Mfecanehas causeState0.60section
Mfecanehas causeSoutheastern Africa0.60section
Mfecanehas causeThe0.60section
Mfecanehas causeWealth0.60section
Mfecanehas causePolitical0.60section

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