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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... kraal thus becoming in itself an independent , yet still subject , unit and , by exogamous marriage , a potential future sub - clan . For within each kraal were many huts , each with its separate family of mother and children , or ...
... kraal thus becoming in itself an independent , yet still subject , unit and , by exogamous marriage , a potential future sub - clan . For within each kraal were many huts , each with its separate family of mother and children , or ...
Page 240
... kraals to dry them quickly . The resulting fires are exactly like those made with peat . Finally the cattle - kraal acted as a gigantic fly trap , for the flies would lay their eggs in the fresh cow - dung which would be churned into ...
... kraals to dry them quickly . The resulting fires are exactly like those made with peat . Finally the cattle - kraal acted as a gigantic fly trap , for the flies would lay their eggs in the fresh cow - dung which would be churned into ...
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... kraal to arms , and mustered about fifty spears . Then he dispatched runners to the other kraals and military units , to mobilize his whole little army . By this time it was cock - crow . Meanwhile Pampata was being revived with beer ...
... kraal to arms , and mustered about fifty spears . Then he dispatched runners to the other kraals and military units , to mobilize his whole little army . By this time it was cock - crow . Meanwhile Pampata was being revived with beer ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Zululand and the Zulus in the late Eighteenth | 15 |
Birth and Exile | 25 |
Copyright | |
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