Land from the ancestors: popular religious pilgrimage along the South Africa-Lesotho border

Between 1843 and 1869 the Basotho monarchy lost the better part of its cultivable land to the white settlers of the Orange Free State. While various political appeals for the return of this "Conquered Territory" by the successor state of Lesotho since 1965 have proved unavailing, recent ye...

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Main Author: Coplan, David B. (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2003
In: Journal of Southern African studies
Year: 2003, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 977-993
Further subjects:B Pilgrim
B Manners and customs
B Borderland
B Pilgrimage
B Africa
B People
B Custom
B South Sotho
B Tree trunk Ethnology
B Real estate
B Lesotho
B Ancestor cult