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POLITICS AND EPIDERMICS
The influenza epidemic of 1918 devastated Africa. In its aftermath, revivalist and millenarian movements sprouted. Prophets appeared bearing messages of resistance, redemption, and renewal. One such prophet, was a middle-aged Xhosa woman named Nontetha. After surviving the deadly virus, Nontetha proclaimed that a series of dreams revealed to her that the influenza had been a punishment from God. Consequently, she embarked on a mission to reform society. She imposed numerous prohibitions and rules on her followers.
Accused of sedition by an alarmed government of colonial occupation, Nontetha was committed to Fort Beaufort Mental Hospital in 1922. On Nontetha’s death in 1935, officials buried her in an unmarked grave.
In a parallel movement, in 1919, millenarian Israelites congregated in the holy village of Ntabelanga, 100 miles north of Nontetha’s area, to await the end of the world. In May 1921, police killed nearly two hundred Israelites near Queenstown in a showdown over attempts to expel the settlers.
AFRICA'S EPIDERMICS THROUGH HISTORY
Carthagininian Plague of 396 B.C.
Egyptian Plague of 1347-49
Cape Colony Smallpox Epidermic of 1713,
Cape Colony Smallpox Epidermic of 1755
Senegalese Yellow Fever Epidermic of 1778
Sierra Leonean Yellow Fever Epidermics of 1815-85
Madagascan Smallpox Epidermic of 1817-18
Tunisian Plague of 1818-20
Egyptian Plague of 1834-35
Tunisian Cholera Epidermic of 1849-50
Angolan Smallpox Epiderrmic of 1864-65
Mauritian Malaria Epidermic of 1866-68
Tunisian Typhus Epidermic of 1868
Zanzibar Cholera epidermic of 1869
Abyssinian Typhus Epidermic of 1876
Cairo and Alexandria Diptheria Epidermics of 1882-86
Cape Colony and Cape Town Smallpox Epidermic of 1882-85
Egyptian Cholera Epidermic of 1883
Abyssinian Smallpox Epidermics of 1886-98
Congolese Sleeping Sickness Epidermic of 1895-1906
Principe Sleeping Sickness Epidermic of 1898-1913
Kenyan Smallpox Epidermic of 1897-99
British Typhoid Epidermic in the Boer War
Uganda-Tanganyika Sleeping Sickness Epidermic of 1900-1909
South African Pneumonia Epidemics of the 1900s
South African Tuberculosis Epidermics of 1906-14
Egyptian Cholera Epidermic of 1902
South-West African Typhoid Epidermic of 1904-07
Gold Coast Plague of 1908
Tripoli Cholera Epidermic of 1911
Morrocan Plague of 1911
Chadian Sleeping Sickness Epidermic of 1912-40
Kilimanjaro Plague of 1912
Northern Rhodesian Plague of 1917-18
Ashanti Influenza Epidermic of 1918
Abyssinian Influenza Epidermic of 1918-19
Mauritian Influenza Epidermic of 1919
Mongallan Meningitis Epidermics of 1918-1924 and 1926-31
Nigerian influenza Epidermic of 1918-19
Sierra Leonean Influenza Epidermic of 1918
Southern Africa Influenza Epidermic of 1918
Malian Relapsing Fever Epidermic of 1921-22
Chadian Smallpox Epidermics of 1922-32
Ashanti Plague of 1924-25
Madagascan Plague of 1924-25
Gold Coast Yellow Fever Epidermic of 1926
Durban Dengue Epidermic of 1926-27
Sudanese Relapsing Fever Epidermic of 1926-28
Ugandan Plagues of 1926-31
South African PneumoniaEpidermivcs of 1926-40
Nigerian Smallpox Epidermic of 1930-35
Madagascan Plague of 1933-37
South African Typhus Epidermics of 1934-35
South African Plagues of 1935-36
Somalian Smallpox Epidermic of 1936
Gold Coast Sleeping Sickness Epidermic of 1936-41
Chadian Meningitis Epidermic of 1937-39
South African Diptheria Epidermics of 1938-43
Upper Voltaic Meningitis Epidermic of 1939
Sudanese Yellow Fever Epidermic of 1940
Egyptian Typhus Epidermic of 1940-45
Ugandan Sleeping Sickness Epidermic of 1940-43
Constantine Malaria Epidermic of 1941
Usambara Malaria Epidermic of 1941-42
Kenyan Plague of 1941-42
Tanganyikan Meningitis Epidermic of 1942
Ghanain Tuberculosis Epidermic of 1942-44
Moroccan Typhus Epidermic 1942-45
Algerian Typhus Epidermic of 1942-44
Egyptian Malaria Epidermic of 1942-44
Senegalese Plague of 1942-44
Egyptian Relapsing Fever Epidermic of 1944-46
Algerian Relapsing Fever Epidermic of 1943-46
Ghanain Meningitis Epidermics of 1945-49
Kenya Relapsing Fever Epidermic of 1945-46
Moroccan Relapsing Fever Epidermic of 1945-46
Ghanain Smallpox Epidermic of 1945-47
Rhodesian Smallpox Epidermic of 1946-48
Egyptian Cholera Epidermic of 1947
Nigerian Meningitis Epidermics of 1949 and 1950
Tanganyikan Plague of 1951-53
Ghanaian Malaria Epidermic of 1952-54
Kenyan Typhoid Epidermic of 1954
Zambian Smallpox Epidermic of 1955
Tanganyikan Influenza Epidermic of 1957
Ethiopian Malaria Epidermic of 1958
Ethiopian Yellow Fever Epidermic of 1960-62
Somalian Malaria Epidermic of 1961
Senegalese Yellow Fever Epidermic of 1965
Guinean Smallpox Epidermic of 1967
Moroccan Meningitis Epidermic of 1967-70
South African Meningitis Epidermics of 1967-72
African and ASian Conjuctivitis Pandemic of 1969-71
Malian Cholera Epidermic of 1970-71
West African Cholera Epidermics of 1970-71
Chadian Cholera Epidermic of of 1971
Kenyan Cholera Epidermic of 1974-75
Zairian Ebola Epidermic of 1976
Egyptian Rift Valley Fever Epidermic of 1977
Nigerian Yellow Fever Epidermic of 1986-90
Sudanese Leishmaniasis Epidermic of 1988-93
African Cholera Pandemic of 1989-91
Burundian Meningitis Epidermic of 1992
Zairian Plague of 1992
African AIDS Epidermic of 1985-present
Zairian Ebola OutBreak of 1995
Ugandan Ebola Epidermic of 2000
South African Cholera Epidermic of 2000-2001
Malian Crimean-Congo Haemorrhage Fever (CCHF) epidermic 2003.
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