Shaka Zulu
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The classic of African History -- a biography of Shaka Zulu, founder of the Zulu nation, born leader and brilliant general. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.
Historians often compare Shaka to European nation-builders including Napoleon, Bismark, and Garibaldi. Molver helps readers by providing images, names, and clans of historical figures at the very beginning of both graphic novels. Ritter's "Shaka Zulu", the great biography of a Zulu king whose achievements rivalled those of his contemporary, Napoleon, in Europe, has established itself as a classic of African history. Hamilton offers a thought-provoking monograph on the persistence of Shaka as a metaphor in South African history and politics and the changing representations of the famous Zulu king over time. He analysis the Zulu's fighting methods, weapons and philosophy, all of which led to the disciplined force that faced the British army in 1879.Thompson, professor of history at Yale University between 1969 and 1986, became the dean of South African historians, and his text remains the best one-volume history of South Africa.
Gathering about him a nucleus of some 500 untrained tribesmen, he built up an immense army of skilled warriors, conquering and pacifying a territory larger than Europe -- all in the space of twelve years. It gives telling insights into the British Empire’s strengths and weaknesses and does the same for the Zulu state that built on Shaka’s innovations. Shaka is a young African boy who makes it his life ambition to bring an army forward through discipline and hard work. As is the case with any oral history, there is likely a significant degree of fantasy thrown in for effect.Being unable to match the dancing talents of those around him and with the Zulu disco around the corner, he feels the pressure to find a beat that could work with his two left feet! Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. Forces of the independent Zulu kingdom inflicted a crushing defeat on British imperial forces at Isandlwana in January 1879.
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