The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856-7 by Jeff Peires

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The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856-7 by Jeff PeiresISBN: 9781868421589 Jonathan Ball Publishers (October 31, 2003) Soft Cover, 463 pages "Anyone who thinks that South Africa's problems began with the Afrikaners and apartheid should read this book." Richard Dowden, The Independent " should remain the last word for the foreseeable future." Choice "Peires is the premier historian of the Xhosa people. He speaks the language, knows the terrain, has collected oral traditions and has made an exhaustive study

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author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera

The editor's intention is to provide readers with an opportunity to explore various literary genres produced in southern African communities - through texts and through scholarly analysis

in two up-to-date projects which each present their own particular challenges

this is an unforgettable collection of powerful stories by a stunning young voice from Zimbabwe

told from a fresh point of view: an account of the author's childhood

from the sonnet and ballad to the beautifully crafted sequence of Conversation poems

A pioneer in the history of the black press

the availability of electronic catalogues and databases

which were often the first documents written on previously unknown cultures

and the changes to the very essence of organisational structures and the nature of work

Isabel Hofmeyr examines how the male and female genres interact and plots the changes that have occurred in the oral history tradition

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