The Nguni people of southern Africa remember the emergence of Shaka's Zulu kingdom between 1816 and 1828, the most dramatic episode in the formation of the
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Origins of the Zulu Kingdom.pdf - 1 views
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lu kingdom. "As his conquests continued," Omer-Cooper remarks, "Shaka constructed a new type of state. Its primary purpose was to main tain an efficient fighting force completely loyal to its lea
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the Zulu state possessed a military sophistication that earned the respectability of Europeans who would normally view African societies with disdain
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any standard accounts of Zulu state formation focus on the dramatic outbreak and course of the Shakan wars and the military innovations that ensured its expansionary success. A popular theme in this regard is the role of Dingiswayo, chief of the Mthethwa from c.17
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h the Zulu was one of the least significant of the chiefdoms absorbed during the course of Mthethwa expansion, its status changed markedly when Shaka usurped the Zulu chieftainship from his brother in 1816. One year after Dingiswayo's death Shaka's army defeated Zwide's, and Zulu expansionism proceeded apace. By the time of his assassination in 1828, Shaka had forged a kingdom bounded on the north by the Phongolo river, on the south by the Thukela and in the west by the Drakensberg. He evidently succeeded as a state-builder by perfecting Dingiswayo's military innovations: replacement of the long throwing spear with the short stabbing assegai; use of the winged battle formation; creation of female age-regiments; and establishment of a hierarchy of civil and political officials subordinate to the king.
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h the work of anthropologist Max Gluckman. Gluckman considers the conflict which gave rise to the Zulu kingdom as the resolution of a crisis precipitated by an expanding population in the narrow coastal belt of southeastern Africa
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Zulu Kingdom - New World Encyclopedia - 0 views
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what was the Anglo Zulu War? Anglo-Zulu War, also known as Zulu War, decisive six-month war in 1879 in Southern Africa, resulting in British victory over the Zulus
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Anglo-Zulu War,
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ih 1879 the british fought a war against the Zulu kingdom. The kingdom resisted bravely and were only defeated after a series of particularly blood y battles that have gone down in the annals of colonial warfare
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The Zulus had originally trekked or migrated to Southern Africa as part of the wider Bantu expansion and their Kingdom can be considered as one of many Bantu Empires, kingdoms and political entities that included the civilization of Great Zimbabwe
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The legacy of the Zulus is one of pride in a highly organized people who were able, at least initially, to resist the Scramble for Africa
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Mostt Zulus entered the battle armed only with shields and spears. However they still proved formiddable opponents
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haka Zulu was the illegitimate son of Senzangakona, chief of the Zulus.
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Shaka Zulu was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828. one of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu
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Imperial Overconfidence: The Anglo-Zulu War - History Guild - 1 views
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In 1879 the british fought a war against the Zulu Kingdom. The anglo war started a s a result of the zulu refusing to submit to british authority. The Zulus had a vast disadvantage in weapons technology, as depicted in the image the British had guns and the Zulus made use of spears and shields.
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The Zulu kingdom as a genocidal and post-genocidal society, c. 1810 to the present 1.pdf - 1 views
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genocidal
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Relating to genocide which is a systematic killing of substantial numbers of people based on their ethnicity, religion and or belief.
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genocidal society
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This highlights the fact the Zulu kingdom was a society that subjected its people, the commoners, to a systematic killing based on the opposite ideologies of those in ruling, which was the king and the kingdom.
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Violence perpetrated by Africans against other Africans.
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preponderance
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“character assassination,”
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for centuries white writers have used the image of the violent African to justify racism, slavery, and colonialism.
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This links with Blyden's analysis of the Idea of Africa and how the white project their opinions of the continent, and they ended up justifying these institutions like colonialism, racism and the likes.
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chiefdom
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Shaka,
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1828,
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Shaka was assisinated on this year. His half-brother took over the reigns the same year
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He struck a deal with the Boers: the Boers would help Mpande take over the Zulu throne from Dingane, and in exchange Mpande would cede to the Boers all Zulu territory south of the Thuke
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half of the kingdom’s total area.
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Shaka and Dingane tended to be portrayed as unusually violent.
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what did shaka and his brother do that made them seem unusually violent? Shaka prohibited the wearing of sandals, toughened his warriors feet by making them run barefoot over rough thorny ground. Shaka centralized power in the person of the king and the court, collected tribute from regional chiefs, and placed regiments throughout his state to ensure compliance with his orders
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The chiefs who ruled Zululand before Shaka
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Other informants painted a similar picture: war was limited in every sense. It was a last resort, an option taken up only when peaceful means of conflict mediation had been exhausted. The causes were always specific and limited. Even combatants rarely died,
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Dingiswayo later helped Shaka gain the Zulu chiefship. When Dingiswayo died, Shaka began to invade his neighbors, including Dingiswayo’s own Mthethwa and the Langa, or Langeni, another chiefdom that had served as a home for Shaka and his mother during their years of exile.
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On the death of Shaka's father.Dingiswayo lent his young protege the military necessary to oust and assainate his senior brother and make himself chieftain of the Zulu. The death of Dingiswayo led to shaka invading other neighbouring tribes including DIngiswayo's tribe
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Shaka acted in a similar way against the Mthethwa themselves because some of them had treated him badly
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here we see Shaka abuse his power as he seeks out revenge against the people that have wronged him in his past
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Shaka would call for the extermination of the subjects of many other chiefdoms. If genocide is defined as a state-mandated effort to annihilate whole peoples, then Shaka’s actions in this regard must certainly qualify.
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Shaka had to rely on such genocidal policies to maintain his authority because he lacked legitimacy in the eyes of many of his subjects.
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Like any other government, Shaka’s rewarded those who submitted to him and punished those who did not.
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But however much Shaka was willing to reward and indulge those who obeyed him, he became increasingly severe against those he perceived as a threat. When members of the Thembu chiefdom defied him, he not only moved against the Thembu men, but the women and children as well:
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Shaka's Supremacy By then, Shaka had no major rival in the area of the present day KZN. during his reign, his regiments continuosly went to campaign, steadily extending their assaults further afield as the areas near at hand were stripped of their cattle.If a chiefdom resisted, it was conquered and either destroyed or like the thembu and chunu driven off as landless refugees. When chiefdom submitted he left local administration in the hands of the reigning chief or another memeber of the traditional ruling family appointed by himself
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Dingane soon became as arbitrary as Shaka, for example by waging total war against the Amabaso because they had complained to Dingane about the chief he had appointed to rule over them.
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arbitrary=based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system We see how the Zulu Kingdom and not just Shaka was a genocidal society, we see how they fight and kill each other
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