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When I started to read Mofolo"s Chaka, I was struck by the manner in which Mofolo had moulded Chaka's character. What is more interesting is the fact that the book was written at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, to be precise -Mofolo finished the book in l909, and yet it raised controversial questions, which are directly linked to the Shaka/Mfecane debate today.

Although the book was finished in l909, its publication process was delayed. In the early twenties, Mofolo revised the book and it was finally published in l925. It is not clear why the book was delayed.

Firstly, Mofolo's novel was a premature study. Given the nature of the debates today, it has not received the status that it deserves from various critics. Kunene, to quote just a few, in his book Thomas Mofolo and the Emergence of Written Sesotho Prose, has seen the novel as a distorted view of what actually happened. He also argued that it brilliantly portrayed Chaka's cruelty and Mofolo's racism.......

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