HIST 3410 Lecture Notes - Mfecane, Tsetse Fly, Mzilikazi
1 Dec 2013
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Hist 3410 november 13 2013 pre colonial africa. In various ways, it accorded more wealth and power to the owner than land and crops did: through marriage, through loaning, re- distribution, recruitment of cattle- less followers. This order was upset- as occurred in the late 18th and early 19th century by several factors like: cattle disease, drought and famine, locus invasion. Some soil support grazing but not planting. Some soil allow grazing only at certain time of year. Places with more moisture often host tsetse fly- which is dangerous to cattle. Fragile relationship between the people of africa, their cattle, and their environment. Environmental explanation: population explosion, introduction of corn, constraints to population movement, increasing land scarcity , drought and famine. Mzilikazi, a general under shaka was the founder of the ndebele state. Migrated towards natal and finally northward to present day zimbabwe. They replicated the zulu military political scenario as they migrated north.
