The Return of Makhanda: Exploring the Legend by Julia C. Wells [New]

ISBN: 9781869142384 / 1869142381 - The Return of Makhanda: Exploring the Legend by Julia C. Wells. Published by UKZN Press, 2012. Softcover. New. 280 pp.

Makhanda was a Xhosa leader and warrior-prophet who lived in the early 19th century in southern Africa, and who led a massive attack on the British in Grahamstown in 1819. His clarity of thinking and personal charisma propelled him into the position of leading spiritual adviser to the powerful Chief Ndlambe of the Rharhabe.

Although Makhanda was portrayed in the written record as a religious fanatic and millinarian prophet who led his own people to destruction, this evocative account demonstrates that the popular heroic view of Makhanda, as one of South Africa's early freedom fighters, is far more justified. With meticulous chronology, the book offers a major revision of the life of this often controversial figure.

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