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The emergence of well-known southern African kingdoms such as the famous kingdoms of the AmaZulu, AmaSwazi, and BaSotho in the early nineteenth century was the culmination of centuries of social and political developments that reflected the consolidation of the political control of ruling descent lines of small-scale chiefdoms across the region. This book traces events and developments among the peoples living in the regions of modern KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, southern Mozambique, and Lesotho from 1400 to 1830, as related in indigenous oral traditions and histories, in order to explain the social and political factors propelling sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms. Elizabeth A. Eldredge is the author of The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815-1828: War, Shaka, and the Consolidation of Power (2014), Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960 (2007), and A South African Kingdom: The Pursuit of Security in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho (2002).

Chiefdoms -- Africa, Southern -- History. --- Africa, Southern -- Politics and government. --- Africa, Southern -- Kings and rulers. --- Africa, Southern -- History -- To 1899. --- Chiefdoms --- History. --- Africa, Southern --- History --- Kings and rulers. --- Politics and government. --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- Southern Africa --- Africa. --- AmaSwazi. --- AmaZulu. --- BaSotho. --- Chiefdoms. --- Elizabeth A. Eldredge. --- Kingdoms. --- Oral Traditions. --- Political Control. --- Precolonial. --- Sociopolitical Consolidation. --- Southeastern Africa.