Andrew Offenburger

Mr. Offenburger will research the historiography of the Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856-1857 and what this event means in contemporary South Africa. In April 1856, a Xhosa prophet in South Africa s Eastern Cape frontier received a message from spirits urging that ..all cattle now living must be slaughtered . This began the cattle-killing movement which eventually broke Xhosa resistance to colonial expansion and domination. Mr. Offenburger s research asks how this event is remembered in South Africa today. He plans to conduct extensive interviews and surveys in order to further his research into the memory and history of the cattle-killings.