Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa: Oral Traditions and History, 1400-1830

by Elizabeth A. Eldredge

This book traces the social and political history of the peoples of early precolonial southeastern Africa, including the regions of modern KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, southern Mozambique from Maputo Bay southwards, and Lesotho. The emergence of well-known southern African kingdoms such as those of the AmaZulu, AmaSwazi, and BaSotho in the early nineteenth century was the culmination of centuries of social and political developments, during which political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580465145
• ISBN13: 9781580465144
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"