Mhudi first Edition - Sol. T. Plaatje

Mhudi: An Epic of South African Native Life One Hundred Years Ago by Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje is the first full-length novel in English by a black South African, written in the late 1910s. A romantic epic set in the first half of the nineteenth century, the main action is unleashed by King Mzilikazi's extermination campaign against the Barolong in 1832 at Kunana (nowadays Setlagole), and covers the resultant alliance of defeated peoples with Boer frontiersmen in a resistance movement leading to Battlehill (Vegkop, 1836) and the showdown at the Battle of Mosega on 17 January 1839.