{"id":4385,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/more-research-help-african-history-myth-folklore\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:23:37","slug":"more-research-help-african-history-myth-folklore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4385","title":{"rendered":"More research help? (African history\/myth\/folklore)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, can any of you kind folks point me toward any resources about the Ndwandwe of Southern Africa? I know that they were a rival nation that were defeated by the Zulu, and that they were dispersed and fell apart as a nation at that point (though their descendants can still be traced to a number of other nations\/peoples in the region).<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m looking for, specifically, is anything on the culture, religion, and folklore of the Ndwandwe. (Something substantially more comprehensive than the tiny Wikipedia entry, I mean.) <em>Or<\/em>, if such things simply have never been recorded, I need an expert who can assure me that there are no such records, and that I can thus safely make certain reasonable\/respectful assumptions for purposes of fiction. (Said assumptions being that they most likely shared the bulk of the religion\/folklore with the other Nguni tribes, such as the Zulu.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone know where to look, or of any specific experts who could answer said question?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, can any of you kind folks point me toward any resources about the Ndwandwe of Southern Africa? I know that they were a rival nation that were defeated by the Zulu, and that they were dispersed and fell apart as a nation at that point (though their descendants can still be traced to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}