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Title: | The origins, migration and settlement of the Northern Ngoni |
Author: | Thompson, T.J. |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | The Society of Malawi Journal |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 6-35 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Malawi |
Subjects: | Ngoni migration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778451 |
Abstract: | M'mbelwa's Ngoni settled permanently in the northern region of Malawi around 1855, following their heroic migration of around two thousand miles and 35 years from South Africa. The nature and the length of the migration combined to make the Ngoni a group of very diverse composition. This very diversity makes it necessary to attempt to define who the Ngoni were, and what was the nature of their society, in the period immediately following their permanent settlement in Malawi. This is all the more necessary since there is much disagreement among early European travellers and historians, and even among modern historians, on the question of Ngoni origins and society, and Ngoni impact on Central African society. This article re-examines the question of Ngoni origins and society in an attempt to set them into a wider context than that previously provided by early missionary sources, while at the same time an attempt is made to reconcile the views of Ngoni historians themselves with those who see their impact as essentially destructive. Ill., notes. |