This newly updated, comprehensive history of South Africa presents the country’s turbulent history in a fresh, readable narrative. Grippingly retold by leading historians and scholars under the ...

In the heart of a Cape cheesewood tree that had fallen among the stone walling of a forgotten civilisation is the story of one of the worst catastrophes ever to hit South Africa. This disaster ...

The first ever Lifaqane-Mfecane Music Festival took place in Maseru, Lesotho on Saturday the 2 nd of May 2015. Organized by Ancestral Collective, a new nonprofit organization developed and structured ...

This article discusses one of the more debated topics in the history of South Africa over the XIX Century: the Mfecane period. The given name to the period and its meaning are a part of the debate, ...

Bantu South Africa before the Mfecane -- The Zulu kingdom -- The birth of the Swazi nation -- Soshangane and the empire of Gaza -- The Ngoni invasions of east-central Africa -- The invasion of the ...

In his controversial analyses of African affairs, former president Olusegun Obasanjo often puts on scholarly airs on account of his experience in government. He had supervised an activist foreign ...

Hundreds of thousands of people - possibly even a million or more - across southern Africa died from starvation and war during the 'crushing', the Difaqane or Mfecane, of 1816-17. One of the main ...