- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
Full Description
Recollections of ordinary people, in isiXhosa and English translation, of daily life and historical events in the nineteenth century
Iimbali zamandulo - 'Stories of the Past' - is a selection of historical testimonies produced by Xhosa-speaking residents of the Eastern Cape between 1838 and 1910. These narratives offer fresh insights into the history of the Xhosa-speaking peoples, providing their own perspectives on their own past.
The volume contains recollections reaching back to seventeenth-century dynastic disputes, to a period preceding the southward migrations in the early nineteenth century into territories settled by Xhosa-speaking peoples. It passes on through those migrations, the clashes and resettlement of peoples and of individuals, the contest for land throughout the century, and on to the struggle for social control and the assertion of cultural identity by the century's end.
To a remarkable extent, we are lent intimate access here to the lives of ordinary people, seeking better pastures for themselves, their families and their livestock; hunting, fighting and, above all, confronting personal conflict in their choices between mission Christianity and ancestral beliefs; between support for their chiefs or the colonial authorities; between active or passive resistance to encroachment on their territory; and between colonial distortions purveyed in the schools and their receding grasp of their own sustaining histories.
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press: Southern African Development Community
Contents
Foreword by Jeff Peires
Introduction
1. Noyi Gciniswa, Iziqwenge zembali yamaXosa (1838): Parts of Xosa history
2. Jivashe, Indaba zokucolwa kwomtu o yim-Fecane (1839): News of a Mfecane refugee's liberation
3. Charles Henry Matshaya, Life of Charles Henry (1842)
4. Gwija and Danga, [Prophecies] (1857)
5. William Kekale Kayi, Gesimilo senvelo senkosi zamaxosa (1857?): The origin of the Xosa Chiefs
6. William Kekale Kayi, Genbali yokuqaleka kokwazeka kwelizwi lika Tixo gokuqondekayo Gamaxosa (1857?): Tradition respecting the first intelligible acquaintance with God's word by the Xosa
7. William Kekale Kayi, Ati maxosa enbalini yawo (1857): The Xosa say in their tradition
8. William Kekale Kayi, Gomtu Ongu Tsikana umxosa wokuqala okwazi ngelizwi lika Tixo wabako emva
konxele (1857): Of the man Untsikana the first Xosa who knew of God's word. He was after Xele.
9. William Kekale Kayi, Gokudalwa kwabantu (1857?): Of the creation of people
10. William Kekale Kayi, The Koobūlu of Umlangeni (1857?)
11. Anon., Imbali ka-Hlanga no-Dhlomo (1861): The story of Hlanga and Dhlomo
12. Tiyo Soga, U-Gxuluwe na-Batwa (1862): Gxuluwe and the Twa
13. John Mazamisa, Izizwe za-Mamfengu (1863): The Mfengu nations
14. William Kobe Ntsikana, Imbali yendoli yamandulo (1864): The story of the early Visionary
15. John Muir Vimbe, Amakosi akwa-Zulu (1864): The Zulu kings
16. John Muir Vimbe, Ukukula kuka-Zulu (1865): The Zulu expansion
17. Kokela, UMxosa (1871): A Xhosa
18. Anon., Imbali ka Ntsikana umfo ka Gaba yamhla watwetyulwa wasungulwa ngu Tixo (1875): The story of Ntsikana son of Gaba on the day he was summoned and consecrated by God
19. John Muir Vimbe, Ngembali ka Ntsikana (1875): With reference to the story of Ntsikana
20. Anon., Imbali zamam-Pondomisi akwa-Mditshwa (1876): Stories of the Mditshwa Mpondomise
21. Platje Mhlanga, A story of Native wars by an aged Fingo (1877)
22. John Muir Vimbe, Ukulwa (1878): Conflict
23. Juju Pantsi, Reminiscences of an old Xhosa (1880)
24. Vete Mziziba, Historical sketch of the Pondomise tribe (1881)
25. Mabasa and Nomlala, A brief history of the Pondomise tribe (1883)
26. Anon., Idlaka lika Soga umfo ka Jotelo (1884): The burial of Soga son of Jotelo
27. John Muir Vimbe, Ingxabano ka Ndlambe no Ngqika (1885): The quarrel between Ndlambe and Ngqika
28. W.D. Soga, Imbali ye Nkosikazi u Sutu (1885): The story of the Lady Sutu
29. William Kobe Ntsikana, Imbali zakwa Xosa (1887): Xhosa histories
30. Charles Pamla, Ama-Xhosa naba-Mbo (1887): The Xhosa and the abaMbo
31. Pambani Jeremiah Mzimba, Imbali yase Mbo (1888): The history of Emboland
32. William Kobe Ntsikana, Imbali ka Makanda ogama limbi lingu Nxele (1888): The story of Makanda known as Nxele
33. W.W. Gqoba, Isizatu sokuxelwa kwe nkomo ngo Nongqause (1888): The motivation of the Nongqause cattle-killing
34. Qitala lakwa Ngqika, Imbali zamandulo (1888): Stories of the past
35. M. Kinass, Imbali zabantsundu (1888): Histories of black people
36. John Muir Vimbe, Imbali yokufika kwe lizwi kwa Xosa (1888): The story of the arrival of the Word among the Xosa
37. William Kobe Ntsikana, Imbali zamandulo (1888): Stories of the past
38. Nathaniel Cyril Mhala, Ukuvela kwamaNdlambe (1898?): The origin of the Ndlambe
39. William F. Xatasi, Inkosi zama Xhosa (1901-02): The Xhosa chiefs
40. William F. Xatasi, Ubukosi base Xhibeni kwa Ngqika (1902): Chieftainship in the Ngqika Xhiba House
41. Isaac Williams Wauchope, Extracts from The Natives and Their Missionaries (1908)
42. Zaze Soga, NgoNtsikana (1910?): Ntsikana
43. Makapela Noyi Balfour, NgoNtsikana (1910): Ntsikana
44. Jacob Mnxu҅ ma Noyi, NgoNtsikana (1910?): Ntsikana
Appendix: Two variants
45. John Knox Bokwe (ed.), Ama-Xosa history by Robert Balfour Noyi: a follower (1914)
46. William Kekale Kayi, Xosa traditions &c. (1857)
English equivalents of Xhosa place names
Sources
References
