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Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief of South Africa's 19th century Cape -Xhosa Wars and arguably one of South Africa's greatest resistance leaders of the colonial period. He was a man of considerable intellect and eloquence, striving to maintain traditional social structures and the power the Xhosa royalty in the face of colonial depredations and dispossession. When accommodation and diplomacy failed, Maqoma led Xhosa forces in three separate wars against the British-ruled Cape Colony. Evidence suggest that Maqoma made covert attempts to undermind the Nongqawuse Cattle-Killing prophecies of 1856-57 which brought devastation ton the Xhosa nation. Imprisoned on Robben Island for 12 years, Maqoma was paroled in 1869. When he attempted to resettle on his stolen land, however, he was re-banished to the infamous island prison, where he died under mysterious circumstances in 1873. An yet his name lives on. In vivid prose the author records the life of a leader of extraordinary tenacity, flexibility, political and martial skills, who tragically became the victim of colonial domination
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Maqoma: The legend of a great Xhosa warrior, Timothy Stapleton
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