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Carte Luka Jantjie Kevin Shillington

Luka Jantjie

Resistance Hero of the South African Frontier

Autor: Kevin Shillington
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Luka Jantjie is today a largely forgotten hero of resistance to British colonialism. His place in So...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Kevin Shillington
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2011
Pagini
308
EAN
9780230338531
ISBN
0230338534
Enbook ID
02936251
Editura
Palgrave Macmillan
Greutate
676
Dimensiuni
155 x 235 x 24

Descriere completă

Luka Jantjie is today a largely forgotten hero of resistance to British colonialism. His place in South African history has tended to be overshadowed by events elsewhere in the region. This book attempts to redress the balance by recording his remarkable story. In 1870, at the beginning of the Kimberley diamond mining boom that was to transform southern Africa, Luka Jantjie was the first independent African ruler to lose his land to the new colonialists, who promptly annexed the diamond fields. His outspoken stand against the hypocrisy of colonial 'justice' earned him the epithet: "a wild fellow who hates the English." As the son of an early Christian convert, Luka was brought up to respect peace and non-violence; his boycott of rural trading stores in the early 1890s was perhaps the earliest use of non-violent resistance in colonial South Africa. His steady refusal to bow to colonial demands of subservience intensified the enmity of local colonists determined to "teach him a lesson". As many of his people succumbed to colonial pressures, Luka was twice forced to take up arms to defend himself and his people from colonial attacks. His life ended in a dramatic and heroic last stand in the ancestral sanctuary of the Langeberg mountain range; its tragic consequences stretched far into the next century.

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