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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Story Press Africa
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1946498904
Shaka struggles to retain power as challenges at home and from across an ocean threaten his new rule.
Author : John Laband
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868428083
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.
Author : John Laband
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868428397
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.
Author : Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107075320
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.
Author : Thomas Mofolo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803288345
Thomas Mofolo's final novel and masterpiece, Chaka captures the phenomenal rise and fall of the great Zulu king. One of the earliest modern literary classics from Southern Africa, Chaka, is the tragic tale of a warrior-king and his insatiable hunger for power. Told in a mythic style, Chaka follows the torments of the Zulu king's early life, his rapid ascension to the throne, and the prophesied events that lead to his downfall. 'Chaka is a beautifully dark and twisted take on the true life story of the Zulu King ... built around one of the most enigmatic and memorable literary figures you'd ever encounter.' Ainehi Edoro
Author : Luke Molver,Mason O'Connor
Publisher : Story Press Africa
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1946498998
A charismatic young warrior prince emerges from exile to usurp the old order and forge a new, mighty Zulu kingdom.
Author : Diane Stanley,Peter Vennema
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0785726772
A biography of the nineteenth-century military genius and Zulu chief.
Author : Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674038207
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.
Author : E. A. Ritter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Zulu (African people)
ISBN : 0140105220
Author : Wilbur Smith,Tom Harper
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781838779153
South Africa, 1820 When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the morning mist alone, refusing to take the child - Harry - with him, Ann is left with no choice but to raise the boy as her own. After two years of disaster and hardship in the African interior, desperation drives Ann and Harry back into the path of the mysterious shipwrecked man. Ralph Courtney has recently escaped from Robben Island and is determined to seek his fortune in Nativity Bay, the hidden harbour that his father told him about when he was a boy. But it isn't long before Ralph, Ann and their fellow settlers learn that Nativity Bay now lies on the borders of a mighty kingdom, where the warrior king Shaka rules. With no means of making their way back to Algoa Bay, Ralph is forced into a bargain with the Zulu king which will lead him to confront the past that he has been running from for his entire life.
Author : Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319567877
This book examines the active role played by Africans in the pre-colonial production of historical knowledge in South Africa, focusing on perspectives of the second king of amaZulu, King Dingane. It draws upon a wealth of oral traditions, izibongo, and the work of public intellectuals such as Magolwane kaMkhathini Jiyane and Mshongweni to present African perspectives of King Dingane as multifaceted, and in some cases, constructed according to socio-political formations and aimed at particular audiences. By bringing African perspectives to the fore, this innovative historiography centralizes indigenous African languages in the production of historical knowledge.
Author : Manzini Zungu
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776424252
Reaching our full potential is the greatest form of self we can ever attain. Born into shame and taught to hate, uShaka kaSenzangakhona was an outcast the moment he came into this world. With blood enemies at every turn, the supernatural, together with defiance and reality needed to come together to fulfil destiny. uShaka Inkosi Yamakhosi is a story that taps into the extraordinary levels of human will and showcases the greatest Zulu monarch like never before. Shaka’s own discoveries about himself and his potential rewrote the destiny of an entire nation…
Author : Sue Derwent
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0864866534
KwaZulu-Natal has numerous sites of great historic value, many of which are protected by law. Sue Derwent has assembled in the pages of this book over a hundred historic, important, beautiful and interesting sites e" and some that are simply fun visits.
Author : John Langalibalele Dube
Publisher : Penguin Group(CA)
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Zulu (African people)
ISBN : 0143185624
Author : Thamsanqa Kingsley Sibisi
Publisher : Partridge Africa
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781482876963
This book is about deciphered palm of the Beast (the historical accounts and the astrological analysis of the Ngoma (Ark) King called Ntaba Kayikhonjwa), who happens to be the only Pharaoh of the city of the Sun in Egypt. Pharaoh is the elephant behind Shaka Zulu (the boulders hiding elephants, the other elephant being the Egyptian Messiah: CHENT IRTI). The book is also about the underwater battles of colonial scholars and the Red Buffalo in Zululand and also the old and the endless animosity between Rome and five African tribes.
