Nongqawuse biography of william

Submitted 17 years 9 months ago by Jeff Brown. Their lands had been taken by the British, drought had withered their crops, and their prized cattle were dwindling under a mysterious disease.

Nongqawuse biography of william

The people were facing a hard winter when hope came in the shape of a young girl called Nongqawuse, the niece of a prophet. Nongqawuse claimed that the spirits of the ancestors had spoken to her from a pool in the Gxara River.

If the people would only kill all their cattle and burn their crops, a day would come when new cattle and crops would arise along with an army of the ancestors who would drive the whites into the sea. The "vision" took hold among the desperate people, who followed her orders.

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Nongqawuse memoir of william shakespeare

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