English Explanatory Dictionary

Mfecane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A period of widespread chaos and warfare among indigenous ethnic communities in southern Africa between 1815 and about 1840.

Word forms

Mfecane

Etymology

From Zulu mfecane (“crushing, scattering”).

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