Definition of mfecane. Meaning of mfecane. Synonyms of mfecane

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word mfecane. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word mfecane and, of course, mfecane synonyms and on the right images related to the word mfecane.

Definition of mfecane

No result for mfecane. Showing similar results...

Meaning of mfecane from wikipedia

- The Mfecane, also known by the Sesotho names Difaqane or Lifaqane (all meaning "crushing," "scattering," "forced dispersal," or "forced migration"), is...
- However, the notion of the mfecane or difaqane has been disputed by some scholars, notably Julian Cobbing. The Mfecane was initiated by Zwide and his...
- number of battles. King Shaka's reign coincided with the start of the Mfecane/Difaqane ("upheaval" or "crushing"), a period of devastating warfare and...
- Sotho people have split into different clans over time as a result of the Mfecane (a series of wars and migrations that took place in the 19th century) and...
- so and were fairly prosperous. This equilibrium came to end during the Mfecane period, 1823–1843, when a succession of invading peoples from South Africa...
- colonialists in the Cape and increased militarization of the Zulu resulted in the Mfecane (the crushing). The Zulu expanded by ****imilating the women and children...
- inhabitants because the thinking went, they had all fled in the face of the Mfecane. The Boers believed that the land was deserted and abandoned and therefore...
- historian to attempt to discredit conventional historical beliefs about the 'Mfecane' - a period of wars during the 1820s and 1830s that resulted in the emergence...
- territory under their leader, Shaka. Shaka's warfare indirectly led to the Mfecane ('crushing'), in which one to two million people were killed and the inland...
- Nguni tribes and clans, setting in motion what became known as Difaqane or Mfecane, a m****-migration of tribes fleeing the remnants of the Ndwandwe fleeing...