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The Collection and Bibliographic Control of Grey Literature of Lesotho

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

David P. Ambrose
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Lesotho originated as an independent African kingdom whose 19th-century monarch, King Moshoeshoe, suffered the humiliation of seeing his people's lands diminished as a result of confrontations with white settlers on the High Veld.

Not long after the creation of the Orange Free State Republic in 1854, the process of encroachment escalated, and at one point it seemed likely to lead to the extinction of Lesotho as an independent policy. King Moshoeshoe, however, astutely invited British intervention, and Lesotho survived, though it had by then lost much of its best agricultural land. The country remained under British rule for the period 1868 to 1966, a period during which it was known as Basutoland.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 36 , 1984 , pp. 11 - 17
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Copyright © International African Institute 1984

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References

Cape of Good Hope Government, Report and evidence of Commission on Native Laws and Customs of the Basutos (Cape Town: Saul Solomon & Co., 1873), Minutes of Evidence for Tuesday 3rd December 1872.Google Scholar
See Lesothana no.2 (Nov. 1982), p.21 for bibliographic listing and p.23 for a facsimile reproduction of one of these laws.Google Scholar
See, for example, African research and documentation no.13 (1977), p.17.Google Scholar
Willet, Shelagh M. and David Ambrose, P., Lesotho: a comprehensive bibliography (Oxford: Clio Press, 1980).Google Scholar
Ibid., p.429.Google Scholar