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The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815–1828

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Author : Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107075327
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815–1828 written by Elizabeth A. Eldredge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly account traces the emergence of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa in the early nineteenth century, under the rule of the ambitious and iconic King Shaka. In contrast to recent literary analyses of myths of Shaka, this book uses the richness of Zulu oral traditions and a comprehensive body of written sources to provide a compelling narrative and analysis of the events and people of the era of Shaka's rule. The oral traditions portray Shaka as rewarding courage and loyalty and punishing failure; as ordering the targeted killing of his own subjects, both warriors and civilians, to ensure compliance to his rule; and as arrogant and shrewd, but kind to the poor and mentally disabled. The rich and diverse oral traditions, transmitted from generation to generation, reveal the important roles and fates of men and women, royal and subject, from the perspectives of those who experienced Shaka's rule and the dramatic emergence of the Zulu Kingdom.

Before and After Shaka

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Author : Jeffrey B. Peires
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before and After Shaka written by Jeffrey B. Peires and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eight Zulu Kings

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Author : John Laband
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868428397
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The Eight Zulu Kings written by John Laband and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Eight Zulu Kings, well-respected and widely published historian John Laband examines the reigns of the eight Zulu kings from 1816 to the present. Starting with King Shaka, the renowned founder of the Zulu kingdom, he charts the lives of the kings Dingane, Mpande, Cetshwayo, Dinuzulu, Solomon and Cyprian, to today's King Goodwill Zwelithini whose role is little more than ceremonial. In the course of this investigation Laband places the Zulu monarchy in the context of African kingship and tracks and analyses the trajectory of the Zulu kings from independent and powerful pre-colonial African rulers to largely powerless traditionalist figures in post-apartheid South Africa.

Shaka Zulu

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Author : E. A. Ritter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140105223
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Shaka Zulu written by E. A. Ritter and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing My Wrongs

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Author : Shaka Senghor
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 1101907312
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Writing My Wrongs written by Shaka Senghor and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed of becoming a doctor—but at age eleven, his parents’ marriage began to unravel, and beatings from his mother worsened, which sent him on a downward spiral. He ran away from home, turned to drug dealing to survive, and ended up in prison for murder at the age of nineteen, full of anger and despair. Writing My Wrongs is the story of what came next. During his nineteen-year incarceration, seven of which were spent in solitary confinement, Senghor discovered literature, meditation, self-examination, and the kindness of others—tools he used to confront the demons of his past, forgive the people who hurt him, and begin atoning for the wrongs he had committed. Upon his release at age thirty-eight, Senghor became an activist and mentor to young men and women facing circumstances like his. His work in the community and the courage to share his story led him to fellowships at the MIT Media Lab and the Kellogg Foundation and invitations to speak at events like TED and the Aspen Ideas Festival. In equal turns, Writing My Wrongs is a page-turning portrait of life in the shadow of poverty, violence, and fear; an unforgettable story of redemption; and a compelling witness to our country’s need for rethinking its approach to crime, prison, and the men and women sent there.

The Diary of Henry Francis Fynn

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Author : Henry Francis Fynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Henry Francis Fynn written by Henry Francis Fynn and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chaka

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Author : Thomas Mofolo
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478609729
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Chaka written by Thomas Mofolo and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions of black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolos fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future Zulu kings birth followed by the unwarranted taunts and abuse he receives during childhood and adolescence. The author manipulates events leading to Chakas status of great Zulu warrior, conqueror, and king to emphasize classic tragedys psychological themes of ambition and power, cruelty, and ultimate ruin. Mofolos clever nods to the supernatural add symbolic value. Kunenes fine translation renders the dramatic and tragic tensions in Mofolos tale palpable as the richness of the authors own culture is revealed. A substantial introduction by the translator provides valuable context for modern readers.

Colonialism [3 volumes]

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Author : Melvin E. Page
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576077624
Total Pages : 1233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Colonialism [3 volumes] written by Melvin E. Page and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-16 with total page 1233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most exhaustive reference work available on this critical subject in world history, focusing on the politics, economy, culture, and society of both colonizers and colonized. "The history of the last 500 years is the history of imperialism," writes editor Melvin Page. In the Americas, as a result of imperialist conquest, disease, famine, and war nearly wiped out a population estimated in the tens of millions. Africa was devastated by the slave trade, an integral part of imperialism from the 1400s to the 1800s. In Asia, even though native populations survived, native political institutions were destroyed. Imperialism also forged the two most important ideologies of the last five centuries—racialism and modern nationalism. In more than 600 essays presented in this three-volume encyclopedia, Page and other leading scholars—historians, political scientists, economists, and sociologists—analyze the origins of imperialism, the many forms it took, and its impact worldwide. They also explore imperialism's bitter legacy: the gross inequities of global wealth and power that divide the former conquerors—primarily Europe, the United States, and Japan—from the people they conquered.

Terrific Majesty

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Author : Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674038202
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Terrific Majesty written by Carolyn Hamilton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his assassination in 1828, King Shaka Zulu--founder of the powerful Zulu kingdom and leader of the army that nearly toppled British colonial rule in South Africa--has made his empire in popular imaginations throughout Africa and the West. Shaka is today the hero of Zulu nationalism, the centerpiece of Inkatha ideology, a demon of apartheid, the namesake of a South African theme park, even the subject of a major TV film. Terrific Majesty explores the reasons for the potency of Shaka's image, examining the ways it has changed over time--from colonial legend, through Africanist idealization, to modern cultural icon. This study suggests that "tradition" cannot be freely invented, either by European observers who recorded it or by subsequent African ideologues. There are particular historical limits and constraints that operate on the activities of invention and imagination and give the various images of Shaka their power. These insights are illustrated with subtlety and authority in a series of highly original analyses. Terrific Majesty is an exceptional work whose special contribution lies in the methodological lessons it delivers; above all its sophisticated rehabilitation of colonial sources for the precolonial period, through the demonstration that colonial texts were critically shaped by indigenous African discourse. With its sensitivity to recent critical studies, the book will also have a wider resonance in the fields of history, anthropology, cultural studies, and postcolonial literature.

Myth of Iron

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Author : Dan Wylie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780852554418
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Myth of Iron written by Dan Wylie and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-examines the evidence of what is known, or said to be known, about the life of the Zulu leader Shaka.

Emperor Shaka the Great

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Author : Mazisi Kunene
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966468697
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book Emperor Shaka the Great written by Mazisi Kunene and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mfecane

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Author : David Westley
Publisher : African Studies Program University of Wisconsin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mfecane written by David Westley and published by African Studies Program University of Wisconsin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Assassination of King Shaka

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Author : John Laband
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868428087
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The Assassination of King Shaka written by John Laband and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting new book, John Laband, pre-eminent historian of the Zulu Kingdom, tackles some of the questions that swirl around the assassination in 1828 of King Shaka, the celebrated founder of the Zulu Kingdom and war leader of legendary brilliance: Why did prominent members of the royal house conspire to kill him? Just how significant a part did the white hunter-traders settled at Port Natal play in their royal patron's downfall? Why were Shaka's relations with the British Cape Colony key to his survival? And why did the powerful army he had created acquiesce so tamely in the usurpation of the throne by Dingane, his half-brother and assassin? In his search for answers Laband turns to the Zulu voice heard through recorded oral testimony and praise-poems, and to the written accounts and reminiscences of the Port Natal trader-hunters and the despatches of Cape officials. In the course of probing and assessing this evidence the author vividly brings the early Zulu kingdom and its inhabitants to life. He throws light on this elusive character of and his own unpredictable intentions, while illuminating the fears and ambitions of those attempting to prosper and survive in his hazardous kingdom: a kingdom that nevertheless endured in all its essential characteristics, particularly militarily, until its destruction fifty one years later in 1879 by the British; and whose fate, legend has it, Shaka predicted with his dying breath.

The Assassination of Shaka by Mhlangane Dingane and Mbopa on 22 September 1828 at Dukuza by which Act the Zulu Nation First Lost Its Empire

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Author : Cecil Skotnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assassination of Shaka by Mhlangane Dingane and Mbopa on 22 September 1828 at Dukuza by which Act the Zulu Nation First Lost Its Empire written by Cecil Skotnes and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zulu Empire Decolonised

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Author : Shalo Mbatha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780620897822
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Zulu Empire Decolonised written by Shalo Mbatha and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever written Zulu history book covering 800 years of authentic history, written from the traditional Zulu perspective. This riveting and climatic saga describes in detail how King Shaka kaSenzangakhona constructed a formidable military empire out of a small, humble Zulu community. The author uses the royal lineage of the Zulu kings as the golden thread to tie the narration of the Zulu nation together. With mise-en-scene, descriptive historical events uncovered and woven together with never-before-told, intimate details of the Zulu royal household; the reader gains a holistic and evenly weighted understanding of the Zulu empire outside of the European perspective. With a foreword of endorsement in authenticity written by the reigning sovereign Zulu King, the book starts with the Zulu perspective of creation, Zulu mythology, culture and their unparalleled military feats. It describes how seasons are interpreted, the names of the planets, stars as well as the structure of the Zulu calendar. It details how King Shaka kaSenzangakhona invented genius military strategies to achieve the impossible and defeated the great British army at iSandlwana, at its peak during the colonial era. Zulu Empire Decolonised is packed with critical historical events that shaped the outcome of what we know of the Zulu nation and democratic 21st century South Africa.

Mfecane Aftermath

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Author : Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781868142521
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Mfecane Aftermath written by Carolyn Hamilton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for interpreting the mfecane's role in history Was the mfecane a figment of historians' imagination as Julian Cobbing contends? How large a responsibility do Shaka and the Zulu people bear for the social turbulence in South-central and South-east Africa in the early decades of the 19th century? These are some of the issues explored in this collection, which is designed as a response to the radical critique of Dr. Cobbing and other scholars. The mfecane, suggests Cobbing, must be seen as a myth lying at the root of a set of interlinked assumptions and distortions that have seriously twisted our understanding of the main historical processes of late 18th- and early 19th-century Southern Africa. Contributors to this collection assess the implications of this critique for scholars from a range of disciplines, notably history, anthropology, archaeology, history of art and African languages. But the book is not only about the debate over Cobbing's work; it is also an indicator of the state of current scholarship in Southern Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries and, because it raises questions about the nature of sources and, indeed, about the nature of historical debate itself, it is also about historiography. This book should provide a useful guide for students starting out in this field, as well as a resource for established scholars seeking their way through the textual intricacies of varied editions and secondary texts that become the primary sources for historiographical debate.

Shaka's Children

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Author : Stephen Taylor
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780006384687
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Shaka's Children written by Stephen Taylor and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taylor's resonant and acute account conjures the atmosphere of the past through close adherence to contemporary oral sources."--Back cover.