Nguni history is more than just ethnography – a curator of African art explains
What to know about Nguni history is more than just ethnography – a curator of African art explains
From around the year 1000 CE, waves of movement led by Mnguni, the Nguni’s founding ancestor, carried communities southward from enhla nezwe (“the land of the north”) to eventually settle east of the Drakensberg escarpment – now KwaZulu-Natal.
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What happened
From around the year 1000 CE, waves of movement led by Mnguni, the Nguni’s founding ancestor, carried communities southward from enhla nezwe (“the land of the north”) to eventually settle east of the Drakensberg escarpment – now KwaZulu-Natal.
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