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 91
... women , among whom some Butelezi warriors had rushed for cover . A frenzied butchery of the screaming women now began , and within a short space of time the last one had shrieked out her life . Every wounded enemy warrior was now ...
... women , among whom some Butelezi warriors had rushed for cover . A frenzied butchery of the screaming women now began , and within a short space of time the last one had shrieked out her life . Every wounded enemy warrior was now ...
Page 335
... women whom Mbiya named , or at least indicated . Half a dozen luckless women were soon afterwards brought before Shaka and he denounced them as being instrumental in causing Nandi's death , for how otherwise could she have died , when ...
... women whom Mbiya named , or at least indicated . Half a dozen luckless women were soon afterwards brought before Shaka and he denounced them as being instrumental in causing Nandi's death , for how otherwise could she have died , when ...
Page 338
... woman gazed silently at her feet . ' Many of my women go whoring about with my guards and warriors . Some of the less clever ones become pregnant , and then try to plant someone else's child on me . * That is what you have done . Can ...
... woman gazed silently at her feet . ' Many of my women go whoring about with my guards and warriors . Some of the less clever ones become pregnant , and then try to plant someone else's child on me . * That is what you have done . Can ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Zululand and the Zulus in the late Eighteenth | 15 |
Birth and Exile | 25 |
Copyright | |
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