Warrior Chiefs of Southern Africa
Author: Ian Knight
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 214
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Author: Ian Knight
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ian Knight
Publisher: Firebird Books Limited
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy looking at the lives and military campaigns of four great warriors, this book paints a picture of Southern Africa before the Europeans arrived. It features: Shaka of the Zulu, Africa's legendary hero, and the instigator of Zulu greatness and nationhood; Maqomo of the Xhosa - a master of guerilla warfare and the most daring and talented military leader of his age; Mzilikazi of the Matabele - he fought the Zulus, the Sotho and the Boers, and finally settled in Zimbabwe; Moeshoeshoe of the BaSotho - in the 1830s, the most powerful leader west of the Drakensberg Mountains.
Author: Bernd Horn
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1550023519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book in a two-part series that examines the unique Canadian experience and outlook in regard to generalship and the art of the admiral.
Author: Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1107075327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis scholarly account traces the emergence of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa in the early nineteenth century, under the rule of the ambitious and iconic King Shaka. In contrast to recent literary analyses of myths of Shaka, this book uses the richness of Zulu oral traditions and a comprehensive body of written sources to provide a compelling narrative and analysis of the events and people of the era of Shaka's rule. The oral traditions portray Shaka as rewarding courage and loyalty and punishing failure; as ordering the targeted killing of his own subjects, both warriors and civilians, to ensure compliance to his rule; and as arrogant and shrewd, but kind to the poor and mentally disabled. The rich and diverse oral traditions, transmitted from generation to generation, reveal the important roles and fates of men and women, royal and subject, from the perspectives of those who experienced Shaka's rule and the dramatic emergence of the Zulu Kingdom.
Author: John Laband
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Published: 2018-08-17
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1868428397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Eight Zulu Kings, well-respected and widely published historian John Laband examines the reigns of the eight Zulu kings from 1816 to the present. Starting with King Shaka, the renowned founder of the Zulu kingdom, he charts the lives of the kings Dingane, Mpande, Cetshwayo, Dinuzulu, Solomon and Cyprian, to today's King Goodwill Zwelithini whose role is little more than ceremonial. In the course of this investigation Laband places the Zulu monarchy in the context of African kingship and tracks and analyses the trajectory of the Zulu kings from independent and powerful pre-colonial African rulers to largely powerless traditionalist figures in post-apartheid South Africa.
Author: Luke Molver
Publisher: Story Press Africa
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781946498991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA charismatic young warrior prince emerges from exile to usurp the old order and forge a new, mighty Zulu kingdom.
Author: John Laband
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0300180314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Anglo-Zulu War, the most famous of Britain's lte ninetweenth-century campaigns of colonial conquest, was not fought in isolation. Along with the two Anglo-Pedi wars, the Ninth Cape Frontier War and the Northern Border War, it was one in a brutal series of interconnected and overlapping wars which the British waged between 1877-1879 to crush and disarm the remaining independent black states of South Africa. [Fusing] the widely differing African and European perspectives on events, [the author] probes the fateful decisions taken by statesmen and military commandrs, analyses military operations and their destructive impact on combatants and civilians alike, and explores why so many Africans chose to fight as auxiliaries and levies alongside the Bruitish instead of against them. ..."--Jacket.
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Publisher: Story Press Africa
Published: 2019-06
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781946498908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShaka struggles to retain power as challenges at home and from across an ocean threaten his new rule.
Author: Adele Seeff
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-07-13
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 3319781480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume considers the linguistic complexities associated with Shakespeare’s presence in South Africa from 1801 to early twentieth-first century televisual updatings of the texts as a means of exploring individual and collective forms of identity. A case study approach demonstrates how Shakespeare’s texts are available for ideologically driven linguistic programs. Seeff introduces the African Theatre, Cape Town, in 1801, multilingual site of the first recorded performance of a Shakespeare play in Southern Africa where rival, amateur theatrical groups performed in turn, in English, Dutch, German, and French. Chapter 3 offers three vectors of a broadening Shakespeare diaspora in English, Afrikaans, and Setswana in the second half of the nineteenth century. Chapter 4 analyses André Brink’s Kinkels innie Kabel, a transposition of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors into Kaaps, as a radical critique of apartheid’s obsession with linguistic and ethnic purity. Chapter 5 investigates John Kani’s performance of Othello as a Xhosa warrior chief with access to the ancient tradition of Xhosa storytellers. Shakespeare in Mzansi, a televisual miniseries uses black actors, vernacular languages, and local settings to Africanize Macbeth and reclaim a cross-cultural, multilingualism. An Afterword assesses the future of Shakespeare in a post-rainbow, decolonizing South Africa. Global Sha Any reader interested in Shakespeare Studies, global Shakespeare, Shakespeare in performance, Shakespeare and appropriation, Shakespeare and language, Literacy Studies, race, and South African cultural history will be drawn to this book.
Author: Timothy J. Stapleton
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2010-04-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 031336589X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarfare and frontier (c.1650-1830) -- Wars of colonial conquest (1830-69) -- Diamond wars (1869-85) -- Gold wars (1886-1910) -- World wars (1910-48) -- Apartheid wars (1948-94) -- Conclusion: The post-apartheid military.