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Zulu : heritage of a nation.
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ISBN: 1868251799 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cape Town Struik

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Emperor Shaka the Great : a Zulu epic
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ISBN: 0435902113 0435906488 Year: 1979 Publisher: Oxford : Heinemann,


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The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815-1828 : War, Shaka, and the consolidation of power
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ISBN: 1316083357 1316057356 1316054985 1316080994 1316076261 1107428025 1139871684 1316071537 1316078639 1316073890 1107075327 1322293147 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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 the 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.


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The dust rose like smoke
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ISBN: 0803284535 0803284551 9780803284531 9780803284555 0803284543 9780803284548 9780803278639 0803278632 9780803284548 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lincoln


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Kingdoms and chiefdoms of southeastern Africa : oral traditions and history, 1400-1830
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ISBN: 1580468764 1580465145 Year: 2015 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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The emergence of well-known southern African kingdoms such as the famous kingdoms of the AmaZulu, AmaSwazi, and BaSotho in the early nineteenth century was the culmination of centuries of social and political developments that reflected the consolidation of the political control of ruling descent lines of small-scale chiefdoms across the region. This book traces events and developments among the peoples living in the regions of modern KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, southern Mozambique, and Lesotho from 1400 to 1830, as related in indigenous oral traditions and histories, in order to explain the social and political factors propelling sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms. Elizabeth A. Eldredge is the author of The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815-1828: War, Shaka, and the Consolidation of Power (2014), Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960 (2007), and A South African Kingdom: The Pursuit of Security in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho (2002).


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Zulu treasures : of kings & commoners : a celebration of the material culture of Zulu people = Amagugu kaZulu : Amakhosi Nabantukazana : umgubho wezinto ezihambisana namasiko amaZulu
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ISBN: 0620205814 Year: 1996 Publisher: [Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa] : KwaZulu Cultural Museum,


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African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona : The Second Monarch of the Zulu Kingdom
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ISBN: 331956787X 3319567861 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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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.

Youth and identity politics in South Africa, 1990-1994
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ISBN: 1442683775 1282029061 9786612029066 9781442683778 0802039111 9780802039118 Year: 2005 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto,

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"Youth and Identity Politics in South Africa examines the ambiguities, contradictions, and negotiations involved in the participation of Zulu youth in the anti-apartheid struggle and their role in the formation of post-apartheid social identities. The author of the book, Sibusisiwe Nombuso Dlamini, spent four years in Greater Durban, working and talking with youth during the critical period that stretched from 1990 to 1994. Writing primarily about male youth, Dlamini begins her study with a discussion of three main influences on black youth culture: the internal divisions within black culture at large, the resistance of all black groups to the apartheid state, and the split between the political groups, resulting in the creation of the United Democratic Front (UDF), the African National Congress (ANC), and Inkatha."--Jacket

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