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Shaka kaSenzangakhona Zulu (ca. 1787–1828)
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AbstractThe Zulu people revere King Shaka as the founder of their nation and internationally he is celebrated as a military genius. Yet remarkably little is known for certain about his life, or even his appearance. As an iconic figure he has spawned many legends which popular biographies and television series have uncritically recycled as apparent fact (Faure 1986). The conventional historical evidence we do possess is limited and problematic. Self‐serving eyewitness accounts of white adventurers in Zululand, who portrayed Shaka as a savage, pathological mass‐killer, while also being seduced by his powerful personality, are one category of source (Stuart and Malcolm 1969; Isaacs 1970; MacLean 1992). The other comprises Zulu oral histories recorded several generations after Shaka's death that present conflicting and partisan information (Webb and Wright 1976–2001).
Title: Shaka kaSenzangakhona Zulu (ca. 1787–1828)
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AbstractThe Zulu people revere King Shaka as the founder of their nation and internationally he is celebrated as a military genius.
Yet remarkably little is known for certain about his life, or even his appearance.
As an iconic figure he has spawned many legends which popular biographies and television series have uncritically recycled as apparent fact (Faure 1986).
The conventional historical evidence we do possess is limited and problematic.
Self‐serving eyewitness accounts of white adventurers in Zululand, who portrayed Shaka as a savage, pathological mass‐killer, while also being seduced by his powerful personality, are one category of source (Stuart and Malcolm 1969; Isaacs 1970; MacLean 1992).
The other comprises Zulu oral histories recorded several generations after Shaka's death that present conflicting and partisan information (Webb and Wright 1976–2001).
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