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About this Site
I am Andrew Offenburger, a Ph.D. student in history at Yale University. This website is an extension of my previous M.A. research on the Xhosa Cattle-Killing. It is intended to help students, teachers, and researchers identify the various resources related to the movement. Because this history is so complex and misunderstood, and because many of its resources are little-known, I created this site to lessen the steep learning curve for anyone interested in the movement's history, literature, and representations in popular culture.
I hope this site gives the general public a chance to interact with primary resources related to the Cattle-Killing, and that it will consequentially lead to a better understanding of its contested history. To this end, I welcome any visitors to this site who have experience researching the movement, and I encourage them to contribute any materials, references, or suggestions not currently listed in these pages.
Much of the research culminating in my M.A. thesis and on this website was supported by Yale's Fox International Fellowship, which enabled me to conduct research in South Africa for the 2006-2007 academic year, based at the University of Cape Town. While there, I joined forces with two other graduate students, Chris Andreas and Sheila Boniface Davies, to convene a conference on the Cattle-Killing. Many of the papers presented at this conference were recently published in a special issue of African Studies, and I hope (as do Chris and Sheila, I'm sure) this will spark renewed interest in this important period in South African history.
Please consider sending me your thoughts or suggestions pertaining to this site. It will be continually updated and expanded, and your comments will help it develop in the future.
Thank you.
Andrew Offenburger
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