Akuko Ntaka Inokubhabha Ngephiko Elinye ( No Bird Can Fly on One Wing): The 'Cattle-Killing Delusion' and Black Intellectuals, c1840-1910
| dc.contributor.author | Bradford, Helen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-23T09:31:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-06-23T09:31:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-22T10:30:48Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The agenda was set a century and a half ago. In a war zone in southern Africa, bureaucrats manning the states of the Cape Colony and adjacent British Kaffraria were witnessing – and transforming – what they deemed an extraordinary event.They coined names for it: ‘Cattle-Killing mania’, ‘Cattle-Killing’, ‘delusion’. They delineated its spatial boundaries: the mania was confined to Xhosaland and colonised Thembuland. They periodised it: the delusion lasted a year, beginning one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six years after the birth of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. They defined its racial and gender dynamics: the central actors were black men (who virtually monopolised cattle); they were inspired by a male prophet, Mhlakaza, assisted by his niece, Nongqawuse. Subsidiary pathologies were noted, including goat-killing, a ‘non-planting mania’ and preparations for an apocalypse, when the English would be replaced by peace, prosperity and black rulers, headed by resurrected forefathers bearing resurrected cattle. | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00020180802242558 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Bradford, H. (2008). Akuko Ntaka Inokubhabha Ngephiko Elinye ( No Bird Can Fly on One Wing): The 'Cattle-Killing Delusion' and Black Intellectuals, c1840-1910. <i>African Studies</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24620 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Bradford, Helen "Akuko Ntaka Inokubhabha Ngephiko Elinye ( No Bird Can Fly on One Wing): The 'Cattle-Killing Delusion' and Black Intellectuals, c1840-1910." <i>African Studies</i> (2008) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24620 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bradford, H. (2008). Akukho Ntaka Inokubhabha Ngephiko Elinye (No Bird Can Fly on One Wing): The ‘Cattle-Killing Delusion’and Black Intellectuals, c1840–1910 1. African Studies, 67(2), 209-232. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Bradford, Helen AB - The agenda was set a century and a half ago. In a war zone in southern Africa, bureaucrats manning the states of the Cape Colony and adjacent British Kaffraria were witnessing – and transforming – what they deemed an extraordinary event.They coined names for it: ‘Cattle-Killing mania’, ‘Cattle-Killing’, ‘delusion’. They delineated its spatial boundaries: the mania was confined to Xhosaland and colonised Thembuland. They periodised it: the delusion lasted a year, beginning one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six years after the birth of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. They defined its racial and gender dynamics: the central actors were black men (who virtually monopolised cattle); they were inspired by a male prophet, Mhlakaza, assisted by his niece, Nongqawuse. Subsidiary pathologies were noted, including goat-killing, a ‘non-planting mania’ and preparations for an apocalypse, when the English would be replaced by peace, prosperity and black rulers, headed by resurrected forefathers bearing resurrected cattle. DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - African Studies LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2008 T1 - Akuko Ntaka Inokubhabha Ngephiko Elinye ( No Bird Can Fly on One Wing): The 'Cattle-Killing Delusion' and Black Intellectuals, c1840-1910 TI - Akuko Ntaka Inokubhabha Ngephiko Elinye ( No Bird Can Fly on One Wing): The 'Cattle-Killing Delusion' and Black Intellectuals, c1840-1910 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24620 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24620 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Bradford H. Akuko Ntaka Inokubhabha Ngephiko Elinye ( No Bird Can Fly on One Wing): The 'Cattle-Killing Delusion' and Black Intellectuals, c1840-1910. African Studies. 2008; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24620. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | African Gender Institute | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | African Studies | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cast20 | |
| dc.title | Akuko Ntaka Inokubhabha Ngephiko Elinye ( No Bird Can Fly on One Wing): The 'Cattle-Killing Delusion' and Black Intellectuals, c1840-1910 | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |