ISBN : 9782336305653
DEFEAT IN VICTORY: THE FATE OF THE XHOSA PROPHETIC TRADITION
Peires Jeff
Revolutionary prophecies played a major part in the Hundred Year Wars of Dispossession (1779-1878) fought by the Xhosa people on the eastern frontier of South Africa's Cape Colony. Following the advent of democracy in 1994, the Xhosa now have both the Bible and the Land but the prophetic tradition has disappeared without a trace...