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Jeffrey Brian Peires

    Perspectives on Southern Africa - 32: The House of Phalo
    • Perspectives on Southern Africa - 32: The House of Phalo

      A History of the Xhosa People in the Days of Their Independence

      • 281 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      "In this first modern history of the Xhosa, J.B. Peires relates the story of one of the most numerous and important indigenous peoples in contemporary South Africa from their consolidation, through an era of cooperation and conflict with whites (whom the Xhosa regarded as uncivilized), to the frontier wars that eventuated in their present position as a subordinate group in the modern South African state"--Back cover.

      Perspectives on Southern Africa - 32: The House of Phalo