Archival Significance
A 1972 reprint of A. A. Campbell’s 1926 original, addressing the 1896 Second Matabele War, with particular attention to the role of the Mlimo religious authority in coordinating Ndebele resistance to British South Africa Company rule.
Institutional Context
Reprinted by Books of Rhodesia Bulawayo Co., with a new publishers’ introduction, map and illustrations added to Campbell’s original text. Campbell wrote under the pen name Mziki.
Content Summary
Recounts the 1896 uprising against British South Africa Company rule, examining the historical role attributed to the Mlimo religious leadership in coordinating resistance across Matabeleland.
Research Utility
A primary historiographical source for researchers of the 1896 uprising and of how the role of religious authority in coordinating resistance has been interpreted across different eras of Rhodesian and Zimbabwean historical writing, useful alongside later academic reassessments of the same events.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.