Xhosa cattle-killing movement and famine of 1856–1857
Nongqawuse (Xhosa pronunciation:[noᵑǃʱawuːse]; c. 1841 – 1898) was a Xhosa prophet. Her prophecies led to a millenarian movement that culminated in the Xhosa cattle-killing movement and famine of 1856–1857, in what is now Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Nongqawuse (Xhosa pronunciation: [noᵑǃʱawuːse]; c. 1841 – 1898) was a Xhosa prophet. Her prophecies led to a millenarian movement that culminated in the...
converting the local Gcaleka people by preaching and teaching the word of God. Nongqawuse the little girl who gave a false prophecy in 1855 about the resurrection...
KING Ahlangene KaXolilizwe Sigcawu {▪RULING NOW▪}(2020 TO PRESENT DAY) Nongqawuse was a young, orphaned prophetess who lived with her uncle Mhlakaza, a...
Widespread cattle deaths resulted. In April 1856, two girls, one named Nongqawuse, went to scare birds out of the fields. When she returned, she told her...
1781), Vol. 2, p.90. Peires, Jeffrey B. (1989). The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement of 1856–7. Indiana University...
named after Andries Pretorius. An apocalyptic prophecy by the Xhosa girl Nongqawuse leads to the starvation of some 40 000 Xhosa. The first constitution of...
supernatural spirits. In April 1856 the 16-year-old Xhosa prophetess Nongqawuse began to declare that she had received a message from the Xhosa people's...
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Heart of Redness (2000), Mda's third novel, is inspired by the history of Nongqawuse, a Xhosa prophetess whose prophecies catalyzed the cattle-killing of 1856–1857...
Xhosa people in the Cape. His best known monograph, The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856–7, disputed then-prevalent...
Powhatan, died in 1622, who believed himself invulnerable to bullets. Nongqawuse, a Xhosa prophetess who in the 1850s led the Xhosa cattle-killing movement...
the first English-language African play, The Girl Who Killed to Save: Nongqawuse the Liberator in 1935. In 1962, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o of Kenya wrote the first...
prophetess Nongqawuse no one believed in the prophecy and it was considered absurdity, but more and more people started believing Nongqawuse. The cult...
Riebeeck Society. Vail, Leroy; Peires, J. B. (1991). "The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-7". Ethnohistory....
disease to South Africa which led to a famine. A Xhosa priestess named Nongqawuse promised the Xhosa that if they killed all of their cattle that they would...
ISBN 978-9004126244. Abbink, J; Peires, Jeffrey (1989). The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing. LULE. ISBN 9780253205247....
Xhosa cattle-killing movement of South Africa, led by the prophetess Nongqawuse. The God Worshipping Society of the Taiping Rebellion, which fused Anglo-American...
Netherlands and Denmark. This thing of saying destroy coal quickly is second to Nongqawuse... a prophet who said we must kill all our cattle and we will be rich...
also a writer, who wrote and staged at least two plays - The Story of Nongqawuse and The Xhosa Prophet Ntsikana. He later produced painting to illustrate...
their chief, Ntshunqe, had refused to participate in the prophecy of Nongqawuse, the Xhosa prophetess whose prophecies led to a millennialist movement...
desperation, turned to the millennialist movement (1856–1858) of the Prophetess Nongqawuse, which began in neighbouring Transkei 1856, and led them to destroy their...
ISBN 978-9004126244. Abbink, J; Peires, Jeffrey (1989). The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing. LULE. ISBN 9780253205247. Osterhammel...
all white people into the sea. Genuinely believing the prophecies of Nongqawuse, Sarili destroyed his cattle and crops, causing thousands of his subjects...
mouth of the Qolora River, it is located in the vicinity of the pool of Nongqawuse, the Xhosa prophetess, and the wreck of the Jacaranda, which foundered...
the role women held within the church in the 1920s. Bulhoek Massacre Nongqawuse, prophet who precipitated the Xhosa cattle-killing movement and famine...
had recently suffered defeat in the 8th Frontier War and because of Nongqawuse's prophecies. He spent most of his childhood herding livestock and only...
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