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" The Ndebele Under the Khumalos, 1820-1896. "
Cobbing, J. R. D.
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Latin Dissertation
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1096521
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TLets451753
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Cobbing, J. R. D.
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The Ndebele Under the Khumalos, 1820-1896.\ Cobbing, J. R. D.
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University of Lancaster
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1976
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1976
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Ph.D.
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The Ndebele state emerged in the 1820s, crossed to the northfirst of the Vaal, later of the Limpopo, where in the Matopos regionof modern Rhodesia it flourished until it was finally destroyed by theBritish in 1896. The political structure of the kingdom closelyreflected the interlinkage of a number of fundamental economic formsof co-operation, among which grain cultivation and the raising and subsequentactivities of amabutho (currently translated as 'regiments')stand out. The 'local' emphasis of the former, as opposed to the'universal' nature of the latter, as well as the particular processof Ndebele*A abu h evolution - which produced the major 'chieftaincies'or iligaba - in turn produced strong tensions between the central stateauthority, as symbolized by the Khumalo kings, and the outlying'provinces'. In the Ndebele kingdom the centre held the parts together,nonetheless, and the Ndebele became extremely efficient raptors, eitherassimilating or holding in a subservient tributary position neighbouringAfrican peoples, or repeatedly attacking them until their potentialeconomically to disrupt the state was neutralized. The eventual collapseof Lobengula's state occurred not only because these features ofAfrican society and struggle were alien to, and misrepresented in termsof 'Christian' or 'Victorian' capitalist morality by Europeans, butbecause these same Europeans, spear-headed by the missionaries, Rhodesand the British South Africa Company, were determined to seize controlof the economic potential of the kingdom - its alleged gold, andgenuine land, labour and cattle - and, in the guise of subjecting theNdebele to European 'civilizing' processes, to subvert the economic,and hence the political, structure of the state, and bend it to theneeds of European capitalism.
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