Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond by Jennifer Wenzel

Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond

Jennifer Wenzel

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nonfiction history literary politics
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In 1856 and 1857, in response to a prophet's command, the Xhosa people of southern Africa killed their cattle and ceased planting crops; the resulting famine cost tens of thousands of lives. Much like other millenarian, anticolonial movements--suc...

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