The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854
by Norman Etherington
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The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent icon of Africaaner nationalism and identity. For African nationalists, the Mfecane - the vast movement of the Black populations in the interior following the emergence of a new Zulu kingdom as a major military force in the early 19th century - offers an equally powerful symbol of the making of a nation. With their parallel visions of populations on the show more move to establish new states, these two stories became part of divided South Africa's separate mytholo show lessTags
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Norman Etherington is Professor Emeritus of Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of Western Australia
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