Shaka Zulu

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But most of all, it tells the incredible story of an outcast who built an empire only to be assassinated by his own brother!

According to tradition, Shaka was conceived during an act of what began as ukuhlobonga, a form of sexual foreplay without penetration allowed to unmarried couples, also known as "the fun of the roads" (ama hlay endlela), during which the lovers were "carried away" Due to persecution as a result of his illegitimacy, Shaka spent his childhood in his mother's settlements where he was initiated into an ibutho lempi (fighting unit). 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. He seeks to evaluate not just Shaka’s nation-building but what followed, most especially the Anglo-Zulu war that culminated in the destruction of the Zulu military at Isandhlwana.The author also doubted accounts that Shaka was illegitimate and bullied as a child, claims that some historians treated as fact.

Anyone interested in history, prisons, and criminal justice will find something to enjoy in this book. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.The Kunda Kids App features a wealth of children's stories, audiobooks and and African language learning animations. Most tellingly, it is an eye-witness account of Shaka at a time when he is extending his hegemony over the region. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. How did penal reformers, prison administrators, and politicians deal with the challenges of confining human beings in long-term captivity as punishment--what they saw as a humane intervention? The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

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