'The Justice of Queen Victoria': Boer Oppression,and the Emergence of a National Identity in Lesotho |
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Authors: | Scott Rosenberg |
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Affiliation: | 1. A.M.Coutts@Sheffield.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | The growth of a national identity in Lesotho after 1910 was a direct response to the threat of incorporation into the Union of South Africa. The Basotho feared being governed by what they considered to be an unjust and hostile South Africa. The Basotho appealed to the justice of the British government - for them to continue to honour the protection that they had extended to the nineteenth-century Basotho chief, Moshoeshoe. The protection which Moshoeshoe had secured entrenched his position as the centrepiece of the Basotho's emergent national identity in the twentieth century. |
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Keywords: | Gender National Identity Modern Japanese Literature Women Writers Hayashi Fumiko |
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