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Nongqawuse (Xhosa pronunciation: [noᵑǃʱawuːse]; c. 1841 – 1898) was a
Xhosa prophet. Her
prophecies resulted in a
millenarian belief that
culminated in...
- KING
Ahlangene KaXolilizwe Sigcawu {▪RULING NOW▪}(2020 TO
PRESENT DAY)
Nongqawuse was a young,
orphaned prophetess who
lived with her
uncle Mhlakaza, a...
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converting the
local Gcaleka people by
preaching and
teaching the word of God.
Nongqawuse the
little girl who gave a
false prophecy in 1855
about the resurrection...
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Heart of
Redness (2000), Mda's
third novel, is
inspired by the
history of
Nongqawuse, a
Xhosa prophetess whose prophecies catalyzed the cattle-killing of 1856–1857...
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Xhosa people in the Cape. His best
known monograph, The Dead Will Arise:
Nongqawuse and the
Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856–7,
disputed then-prevalent...
- 1781), Vol. 2, p.90. Peires,
Jeffrey B. (1989). The Dead Will Arise:
Nongqawuse and the
Great Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement of 1856–7.
Indiana University...
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supernatural spirits. In
April 1856 the 16-year-old
Xhosa prophetess Nongqawuse began to
declare that she had
received a
message from the
Xhosa people's...
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disease to
South Africa which led to a famine. A
Xhosa priestess named Nongqawuse promised the
Xhosa that if they
killed all of
their cattle that they would...
- who
believed himself invulnerable to bullets. New
religious movement Nongqawuse, a
Xhosa prophetess who in the 1850s led the
Xhosa cattle-killing movement...
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Widespread cattle deaths resulted. In
April 1856, two girls, one
named Nongqawuse, went to
scare birds out of the fields. When she returned, she told her...
