The Zulu monarchy in South Africa has been plunged into controversy ... the leader of the Zulu nation during the 1879 war against the British army. To many, the father of 28 children from six ...

The Modern Traveller, Hilaire Belloc In the war with the Zulu people of South Africa in 1879, the British suffered a humiliating defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana, but went on to win the war.

Some feared the violence could lead to a civil war and derail the transition ... chief of the Zulus, South Africa's largest ethnic group. He was born into the Zulu royal family - his mother ...

In 1816 Shaka, chief of the Zulus, began a series of conquests that eventually disrupted a third of Africa. The story of his brief and bloody reign is a case history in the sociology of war ...

The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British ... might succeed with the African Kingdoms, tribal areas and Boer republics in South Africa. In 1874, Sir Bartle Frere was sent to ...

drawing on the memories of a number of Zulu oral historians. In the early part of the 19th century the history of southern Africa is marked by the massive expansion of the Nguni empire under the ...

Ari Kelman: The Zulu parade emerged around the turn of the twentieth century and grew out of New Orleans's powerful African American community. Members of benevolent organizations, groups that ...