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Title: | Conflict and Power in Nineteenth Century Namibia |
Author: | Lau, Brigitte |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 29-39 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Namibia |
Subjects: | Coloureds colonial conquest Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) colonialism History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181335 |
Abstract: | In explaining how one Oorlam group, led by Jonker Afrikaner and his sons, lost its hegemony in Namaland in the 1860s, this article examines the impact on this region of Oorlam migration, trade with the Cape and the advent of Christian missionaries. The kinship-based social organization of the Nama pastoralists was largely replaced by the 'commando' organization, introduced by the Oorlams. By the 1850s production was geared to the demands of the Cape traders for cattle, skins and ivory. Raiding and hunting, with imported guns and horses, supplanted local traditions of good husbandry. By the early 1860s the Afrikaners and their allies confronted several Nama/Oorlam chiefs and an army raised by a Cape trader, Andersson. The ensuing battles marked the replacement of Afrikaner by European hegemony; the country was freer than ever before to be controlled by agents of merchant capital and colonialism. Notes, sum. |