Shaka's Children - Stephen Taylor

Shaka's Children: A History of the Zulu People by Stephen Taylor records the decline of a conviction. The Zulu were more than just another Bantu tribe of southern Africa, because in the years after their sudden eruption into dominance in the early years of the 19th century, they evolved something approaching an ideology. Their masterful founding father, King Shaka ka Senzangakona welded them into a unique community of Spartans, sure of their divine rights and privileges, bound together in pride, battle, mysticism and an essential humanism.