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The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-7
J.B. Peires
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| #7846374 in Books | 1989-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .87 x.59 x.59l,.88 | File type: PDF | 364 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Dichotomous|By fastidious one|The author J.B Peires was a Senior Lecturer in History at Rhodes University. He possessed a knack for turning historical data into emotionally stirring and controversial reading. This book proved to be a challenging read, taking me several years to research. There are indeed omissions, inconsistencies, conflicting versions and biased narratives. |In 1856 the Xhosa tribe of South Africa slaughtered all their cattle, cut down their crops and sat back to wait for their ancestors to rise from the dead. By the end of the following year they themselves were dead, mostly from starvation... . This must be the
The story of Nongqawuse, a young girl whose prophecy in 1856 of the regeneration of the living and the resurrection of the dead caused 100,000 Xhosa to kill their cattle, destroy their crops and slowly starve to death, is one of the most extraordinary in history, and has defied explanation over 130 years. The author draws on private letters, spy reports, oral traditions and obscure Xhosa texts to explain the motivations behind both the prophesy and the slaughter. North ...
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