Product Description
Mountains of Spirit: The Story of the Royal Bakwena Ba Mogopa of the North West, South Africa
Author: Samuel Freddy Khunou
Format: Paperback
A detailed history of the Bakwena ba Mogopa, one of South Africa's significant traditional communities, traced from the Kwena people's migration out of East Africa to the emergence of a distinct lineage in the 1600s. Samuel Freddy Khunou follows the community through dispossession as Boer settlers pushed inland from the Cape, the arrival of Christianity, the policies of successive colonial governments, and the hardships of the Union years and apartheid.
He gives close attention to how the community's traditional leaders shaped it and answered the demands of a modern economy and a constitutional democracy, and to its structures, its cultural practices, and its claims to land, minerals and mining rights. It is a story of migration, war, dispossession and restitution, of rivalry, forced removal and suffering — and of a community that held together.
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