Iimbali zamandulo

Stories of the past (1838-1910)
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-84701-456-6
Verlag: James Currey

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 528 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 899 g

Reihe: Publications of the Opland Collection of Xhosa Literature

Recollections of ordinary people, in isiXhosa and English translation, of daily life and historical events in the nineteenth century

Iimbali zamandulo - 'Stories of the Past' - is a selection of historical testimonies produced by Xhosa-speaking residents of the Eastern Cape between 1838 and 1910. These narratives offer fresh insights into the history of the Xhosa-speaking peoples, providing their own perspectives on their own past.

The volume contains recollections reaching back to seventeenth-century dynastic disputes, to a period preceding the southward migrations in the early nineteenth century into territories settled by Xhosa-speaking peoples. It passes on through those migrations, the clashes and resettlement of peoples and of individuals, the contest for land throughout the century, and on to the struggle for social control and the assertion of cultural identity by the century's end.

To a remarkable extent, we are lent intimate access here to the lives of ordinary people, seeking better pastures for themselves, their families and their livestock; hunting, fighting and, above all, confronting personal conflict in their choices between mission Christianity and ancestral beliefs; between support for their chiefs or the colonial authorities; between active or passive resistance to encroachment on their territory; and between colonial distortions purveyed in the schools and their receding grasp of their own sustaining histories.

University of KwaZulu-Natal Press: Southern African Development Community

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Opland, Jeff

Mtuze, Peter T

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Jeff Peires

Introduction

1. Noyi Gciniswa, Iziqwenge zembali yamaXosa (1838): Parts of Xosa history

2. Jivashe, Indaba zokucolwa kwomtu o yim-Fecane (1839): News of a Mfecane refugee's liberation

3. Charles Henry Matshaya, Life of Charles Henry (1842)

4. Gwija and Danga, [Prophecies] (1857)

5. William Kekale Kayi, Gesimilo senvelo senkosi zamaxosa (1857?): The origin of the Xosa Chiefs

6. William Kekale Kayi, Genbali yokuqaleka kokwazeka kwelizwi lika Tixo gokuqondekayo Gamaxosa (1857?): Tradition respecting the first intelligible acquaintance with God's word by the Xosa

7. William Kekale Kayi, Ati maxosa enbalini yawo (1857): The Xosa say in their tradition

8. William Kekale Kayi, Gomtu Ongu Tsikana umxosa wokuqala okwazi ngelizwi lika Tixo wabako emva
konxele (1857): Of the man Untsikana the first Xosa who knew of God's word. He was after Xele.

9. William Kekale Kayi, Gokudalwa kwabantu (1857?): Of the creation of people

10. William Kekale Kayi, The Koobulu of Umlangeni (1857?)

11. Anon., Imbali ka-Hlanga no-Dhlomo (1861): The story of Hlanga and Dhlomo

12. Tiyo Soga, U-Gxuluwe na-Batwa (1862): Gxuluwe and the Twa

13. John Mazamisa, Izizwe za-Mamfengu (1863): The Mfengu nations

14. William Kobe Ntsikana, Imbali yendoli yamandulo (1864): The story of the early Visionary

15. John Muir Vimbe, Amakosi akwa-Zulu (1864): The Zulu kings

16. John Muir Vimbe, Ukukula kuka-Zulu (1865): The Zulu expansion

17. Kokela, UMxosa (1871): A Xhosa

18. Anon., Imbali ka Ntsikana umfo ka Gaba yamhla watwetyulwa wasungulwa ngu Tixo (1875): The story of Ntsikana son of Gaba on the day he was summoned and consecrated by God

19. John Muir Vimbe, Ngembali ka Ntsikana (1875): With reference to the story of Ntsikana

20. Anon., Imbali zamam-Pondomisi akwa-Mditshwa (1876): Stories of the Mditshwa Mpondomise

21. Platje Mhlanga, A story of Native wars by an aged Fingo (1877)

22. John Muir Vimbe, Ukulwa (1878): Conflict

23. Juju Pantsi, Reminiscences of an old Xhosa (1880)

24. Vete Mziziba, Historical sketc

Über Autor(innen)

Mtuze, Peter T
PETER T. MTUZE is the most prolific living isiXhosa writer: he has produced novels, short stories, essays, drama, poetry, autobiography and language books. Mtuze's first book, UDingezweni (1966), is regarded as a classic novel. One of his singular achievements was his translation of former President Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, into isiXhosa. He worked on the University of Fort Hare Xhosa Dictionary Project, at the University of South Africa and at Rhodes University, where he retired as Professor Emeritus.

Opland, Jeff
JEFF OPLAND held appointments at the University of Cape Town, University of Durban-Westville and Rhodes University and taught at the Universities of Toronto, Yale, and Leipzig as well as Vassar College before his retirement.