Proper noun
Mfecane
(historical) A period of widespread chaos and warfare among indigenous ethnic communities in southern Africa between 1815 and about 1840.
Clearly, the mfecane had a significant impact on Southern Africa. Source: Internet
One view states that the first of these were marauding Zulu clans, displaced from Zululand as part of the Lifaqane (or Mfecane ), wrought havoc on the Basotho peoples they encountered as they moved first west and then north. Source: Internet
The scattering Ndwandwe and Swazi caused the Mfecane to spread. Source: Internet
Somhlolo was a strategic leader between 1815 and 1839 a period including the mfecane period of Shaka Zulu a Zulu illegitimate child of Senzangakhona who created his kingdom from the Mtetwa polity established by Dingiswayo. Source: Internet
The ripple effect caused by these mass migrations would become known (though only in the twentieth century) as the Mfecane (annihilation). Source: Internet
General histories of Southern Africa are also valuable including Noel Mostert's "Frontiers" and a detailed account of the results from the Zulu expansion, J. D. Omer-Cooper's "The Zulu Aftermath", which advances the traditional Mfecane theory. Source: Internet