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Title:Living with a tyrant: Ndau memories and identities in the shadow of Ngungunyana
Author:MacGonagle, ElizabethISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:International Journal of African Historical Studies
Volume:41
Issue:1
Pages:29-53
Language:English
Geographic terms:Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Subjects:Ndau
ethnic identity
Nguni
ethnic relations
history
1800-1899
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40282455
Abstract:Many Ndau in central Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe recall a past marked by a shifting political and cultural terrain of invasion and domination in the 19th century. This turbulent period, known by many as a time of terror, began with the migrations of several northern Nguni peoples, notably the Gaza Nguni, who first settled in the Ndau heartland in the 1830s and returned later for an extended occupation from 1862 to 1889. Most of the population in this area submitted to Gaza Nguni overrule and came to be known as Ndau partly in response to the presence of these outsiders. This conquest by the Gaza Nguni acted as a foil for the Ndau to recreate their identity and assume a sense of Ndauness with a powerful salience that reverberated into the 20th century. In the shadow of the Gaza Nguni leader Ngungunyana, both women and men were actively involved in shaping Ndau landscapes of memory and giving them meaning. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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