IN SEARCH OF NONGQAWUSE

223pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, First SA Edition, Kwela Books, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9780795711145

First published in the UK in 2025 as The Girl Who Killed a Nation.

Foreword in English and isiXhosa by Hombakazi Mercy Nqandeka.

Treive Nicholas on South Africa's colonial history, the culture of the amaXhosa, and the journeys he undertook in his attempt to understand the teenage prophetess Nongqawuse, leader of the mass movement known as the Great Cattle Killing of 1856–57.

"A rollicking historical treasure hunt that brings us closer to understanding one of South Africa's greatest mysteries." Nick Dall, author of Legends, people who changed South Africa for the better

Dr Treive Nicholas trained as a research scientist before working in commerce. He is the author of A Nun and the Pig, tales from South Africa (2021) about his time teaching English in Mthatha in the 1980s.