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 ...

Emperor Shaka the Great, translated by Mazisi Kunene, 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 ...