Ethnicity in Zimbabwe - Transformations in Kalanga and Ndebele Societies, 1860-1990

A comparative study of identity shifts in two large ethnic groups in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.

List of contents

Introduction
Ethnicity and Identities in Matabeleland
Domination and Resistance: Precolonial Ndebele andKalanga Relations, 1860-93
Remaking Communities on the Margins: Chieftaincy andEthnicity in Bulilima-Mangwe, 1893 to the 1950s
Ultraroyalism, King's Cattle, and Postconquest Politics among theNdebele, 1893 to the 1940s
Language and Ethnicity in Matabeleland
Contests and Identities in Town: Bulawayo before 1960
Complementary or Competing? Ethnicity and Nationalism inMatabeleland, 1950-79
Postcolonial Terror: Politics, Violence, and Identity, 1980-90
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Enocent Msindo

Product details

• Authors: Enocent Msindo
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2012
• EAN: 9781580464185
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-418-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories