A lot of the information provided to the author was handed down via oral history with a lot of it verified by documented history in the later years of Shaka's life. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. But most of all, it tells the incredible story of an outcast who built an empire only to be assassinated by his own brother!

No one is more intimately familiar with the sources on this conflict, and especially the epic battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift.Behalwe in die geval van versamelbare of ander meer waardevolle boeke (waar werklike foto’s van die boek gebruik word om sy toestand aan te dui), word ‘n publikasiefoto van die omslag van die korrekte uitgawe van die boek vertoon. 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. This cry for help, this SOS in the sand unleashed a brotherly love that had Manni travelling back to the UK mid-pandemic to rescue his brother from the care home, and together they sheltered from the world in a cottage in deepest, darkest Dorset. Given the politics of South Africa and the attitudes of the time, he manages to produce a far from myopic view of this Black African leader and military genius. This remarkable Zulu king was a contemporary of Napoleon, and his achievements rivalled the Emperor’s.

At the ouset, I felt this book might be a little too gruesome but the 9/10 year old class who I read it to really seemed to enjoy it. Some handling marks, age tanning to pages; dustjacket soiled small areas missing corners and spine with some closed tears. 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. This definitive account of the rise of the Zulu nation under the great ruler Shaka and its fall under Cetshwayo has been acclaimed for its scholarship, its monumental range, and its spellbinding readability.Ian Knight details how the Zulu army functioned and ties its role firmly to the broader context of Zulu society and culture. Hamilton argues that the image of Shaka, contrary to most post-modernist interpretations, was not simply a colonial invention.