Who will defend Africa against the rogue lions?THE Mfecane is a Zulu word which means The Crushing.In history, the Mfecane refers to a series of Zulu and other Nguni wars and forced migrations of the second and third decades of the 19th Century that changed the demographic, social and political configuration of southern and central Africa and parts of eastern Africa.During that period, thousands of lives were lost and the entire subcontinent was destabilised. Empires were disbanded and the survivors regrouped to form new kingdoms.The Ngonis ran away from Tshaka Zulu to come and form a new kingdom in present day Zambia while the Sotho people regrouped to form the country we call Lesotho today.The Bemba like many other tribes in north and north western Zambia, the Kaonde, Chokwe, Lunda, Luunda, Luvale and Lamba broke away from the Luba-Lunda kingdom to come and establish new kingdoms and chiefdoms in Zambia.In all the Mfecane migrations, the […]
Who will defend Africa against the rogue lions?
