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• Mfecane.

  Mfecane. I INTRODUCTION Mfecane , period of upheaval in southern Africa in the early decades of the 19th century, characterized by widespread warfare between chiefdoms centered in what is now eastern South Africa, and the subsequent mass migrations of numerous other chiefdoms. The term mfecane comes from a Nguni word that means “the crushing.” It is also known as difaqane , the Southern Sotho equivalent. The mfecane reshaped the political and cultural map of southern Africa, as new kingdoms a...