In Search of Nongqawuse

Treive Nicholas’ second book:

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Available to buy from booksellers and online from 2025.

- NB Publishers -

South African launch April 2025.

Presenting at the Franschhoek Literary Festival 16th - 18th May 2025.

Hombakazi Mercy Nqandeka

Author and Xhosa culture expert

“Reviewing this book has granted me a new found appreciation of Nongqawuse, viewed through a lens of grace and respect”

A True Story Told Anew

Did a teenager really cause the death of 40,000 of her own people in the 1850s? Fact proves stranger than fiction. This astonishing true story unfolds as Treive travels through the South African bush but concludes at a quiet graveyard in Cambridgeshire.

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