c. 1890
Colonial reordering of the Tsonga hinterland
Portuguese colonial consolidation around Delagoa Bay and expanding Boer and British power inland reordered Tsonga political and commercial life in the Lowveld hinterland.
probable
political-change
conquest
Portuguese colonial consolidation around Delagoa Bay and expanding Boer and British power inland reordered Tsonga political and commercial life in the Lowveld hinterland.
Significance
Marks the late-nineteenth-century colonial enclosure of communities previously framed mainly through trade-network narratives.
Why it matters
Marks the late-nineteenth-century colonial enclosure of communities previously framed mainly through trade-network narratives.