The Maphumulo Uprising: War, Law and Ritual in the Zulu Rebellion - Softcover

Guy, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1869140486 ISBN 13: 9781869140489

Publisher: University Kwazulu Natal Press, 2005

Synopsis

In 1906, the authorities in the Colony of Natal put down, with great loss of life, an uprising that has become known as the Zulu or Bhambatha rebellion. Accounts have tended to concentrate on Bhambatha, the man who led the guerrilla war in the Nkandla forest, but this book shifts the focus to the Maphumulo area where two famous chiefs led their people in violent resistance to the colonial militia. This account also goes beyond the physical conflict. It examines the rituals that preceded it and the life and death struggle in the courts which followed as the colonial authorities sought to make an example of those who, they alleged, had used not just African weapons but African medicine and superstition/religion to drive the white man out of Africa.

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About the Author

Jeff Guy is Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Kwazulu Natal Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1869140486
• ISBN 13: 9781869140489
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300