Shaka Zulu"The classic of African History -- a biography of Shaka Zulu, founder of the Zulu nation, born leader and brilliant general...E.A. Ritter grew up with the Zulus, earning their respect and accumulating a rich store of material during his long association with them. Shaka's life and deeds had been handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and they are here evoked with a sense of drama and an eye for detail." -- Back cover. |
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Page 66
... friends , and mark well , that your true friends are all those who were kind to you in your distress and poverty , and not those who now merely come to eat your meat . Take special care of Pam- pata , for though I shall never marry ...
... friends , and mark well , that your true friends are all those who were kind to you in your distress and poverty , and not those who now merely come to eat your meat . Take special care of Pam- pata , for though I shall never marry ...
Page 275
... friends in the days of youth , and appointed him ambas- sador plenipotentiary to the White man's camp , bearing a ... friend . Guided by Mbikwane , the English , on their horses , took the coastal path , fording the rivers at or near ...
... friends in the days of youth , and appointed him ambas- sador plenipotentiary to the White man's camp , bearing a ... friend . Guided by Mbikwane , the English , on their horses , took the coastal path , fording the rivers at or near ...
Page 355
... friends , and everyone feared him . Mkabayi also inflamed the friends of Nandi by insiduously propagating the false rumour that she had not died of illness but that Shaka had murdered her . ( This story , incidentally , was later taken ...
... friends , and everyone feared him . Mkabayi also inflamed the friends of Nandi by insiduously propagating the false rumour that she had not died of illness but that Shaka had murdered her . ( This story , incidentally , was later taken ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Zululand and the Zulus in the late Eighteenth | 15 |
Birth and Exile | 25 |
Copyright | |
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