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Olden Times in Zululand and Natal: Containing Earlier Political History of the Eastern-Nguni Clans

A.T. Bryant, 1929

Summary

Father A.T. Bryant spent decades collecting Zulu oral traditions, resulting in this exhaustive political history of the Zulu and Natal Nguni peoples from their earliest remembered origins through the Mfecane. The single most comprehensive compilation of Zulu oral historical material, indispensable for the pre-colonial period.

Topics

Zulu Kingdom, Natal, Oral tradition, Pre-colonial, Nguni, Political history, Shaka, Mfecane

Bibliographic Information

Author
A.T. Bryant
Year
1929
Language(s)
English
Period
Zulu Kingdom
Perspective
Missionary historian
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