About the Author

JULIA WELLS is an Associate Professor of History at Rhodes University, South Africa. She has a long-standing research interest in black women and resistance in South Africa, which has now expanded to understanding the role of gender as a force in South African history..

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Makana was a leader who commanded an army of 18 000 in 1890 and who devastated white areas for several months. His people were greatly disappointed by his banishment and deeply shocked by his unexpected death when trying to swim from the island to the mainland. Nelson Mandela, Reflections in Prison