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Chaka is the third and final novel by Lesotho writer Thomas Mofolo. Written in Sesotho , it is a mythic fictional retelling of the story of the rise and fall of the Zulu emperor-king Shaka . Following its first publication in 1925, it was published in English translation in 1931.
The novel tells the tale of the origin and early life of the hero Umslopogaas, the unacknowledged son of the great Zulu king and general Chaka, and his love for "the most beautiful of Zulu women", Nada the Lily. Chaka was a real king of the Zulus but Umslopogaas was invented by Haggard.
John William Colenso by Samuel Sidley, 1866. Oil on canvas. National Portrait Gallery, London. Magema Magwaza Fuze (c. 1844–1922) was the author of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (The Black People and Whence They Came), the first book in the Zulu language published by a native speaker of the language.
Malaba calls this book a "glorious technicolor," describing how beautiful Kunene makes the tale of Shaka [6] However, John Haynes suggests that many of these changes to historiographic approach are a result of portraying the "tension between Shaka's creativity and his destructiveness" from an aristocratic point of view and embodying Zulu values ...
The Washing of the Spears is a 1965 book by Donald R. Morris about the "Zulu Nation under Shaka" and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. [1] It chronicles the rise of the Zulu nation under Shaka Zulu in the early 19th century and Chief Cetshwayo’s inevitable war with the British in 1879 as the colony of Natal pushed at the Zulu nation's borders.
Vilakazi's later novels continued to explore daily life in traditional Zulu culture, such as UDingiswayo kaJobe (1939) and Nje nempela (1944), which is the story of a polygamous Zulu family. His poetry became increasingly political in the course of his life, dramatizing the exploitation and discrimination not only against the Zulu people , but ...
Rolfes Robert Reginald Dhlomo (1906–1971) was a South African journalist, novelist and historian born in Siyamu, Edendale in the province of KwaZulu. His novella An African Tragedy, published in 1928, was the first fiction work written by a black South African to appear in book form.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Zulu literature" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.