“…offers a welcome addition; first because it is largely set in the years prior to 1918. Secondly, as the biography of a prominent Ndebele woman, this book brings forward valuable and little-acknowledged elements about women in a kingdom long viewed as male-dominated and militaristic…Clarke offers a fine-grained and suspenseful retelling of the events of the 1890; the unfolding of the 1893 war, the disappearance of the King, the dispossession and grievances against the British South Africa Company (BSAC), Rhodes’ indabas (meetings) with the Ndebele izinduna (chiefs) that brough the 1896 war to an end. Glinting along this re-told pathway are the crucial bits where the role of Lozikeyi figures into the narrative.”
