Leselinyana la Lesotho and Sotho Historiography

On 3 November 1863 the first issue of ‘Leselinyana la Lesotho’ was published by the Rev. Adolphe Mabille of the Paris Evangelical Mission Society. This newspaper continues to be published to the present day. The author surveys the paper’s beginnings and development, its contents and some of the major contributors, and suggests ways in which the materials in this publication can be of value to historians of the Sotho. Notes.