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  2. Zulu people - Wikipedia

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    The Zulu were originally a minor clan in what is today Northern KwaZulu-Natal, founded c. 1574 by Zulu kaMalandela.In the Nguni languages, iZulu means heaven or weather. At that time, the area was occupied by many large Nguni communities and clans (also called the isizwe people or nation, or called isibongo, referring to their clan or family name).

  3. Zulu language - Wikipedia

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    Zulu (/ ˈ z uː l uː / ZOO-loo), or isiZulu as an endonym, is a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken and indigenous to Southern Africa.It is the language of the Zulu people, with about 13.56 million native speakers, who primarily inhabit the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. [3]

  4. The Religious System of the Amazulu - Wikipedia

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    It focuses on ways a Zulu person can be the inyanga, the way a person begins their duty to become a diviner, the tasks of becoming a diviner, the story of the greatest Inyanga and Umwathaleni. When a man is ill, the Zulu people will enquire Umngoma; a more respectful way to call Izinyanga for Amazulu people. The Umngoma will then point out ...

  5. Zulu - Wikipedia

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    Zulu kaMalandela, founder (c. 1709) and chief of the Zulu clan Zulu Sofola (1935–1995), professor and the first published female Nigerian playwright and dramatist Shaka Zulu (c. 1787 – 1828), leader of the Zulu Kingdom

  6. Zulu calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Zulu calendar is the traditional lunisolar calendar used by the Zulu people of South Africa. [1] Its new year begins at the new moon of uMandulo(September) in the Gregorian calendar . The Zulu calendar is divided into two seasons, the summer iHlobo and Winter ubuSika . [ 2 ]

  7. Zulu Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Zulu Kingdom (/ ˈ z uː l uː / ZOO-loo; Zulu: KwaZulu), sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire, was a monarchy in Southern Africa.During the 1810s, Shaka established a standing army that consolidated rival clans and built a large following which ruled a wide expanse of Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to the Pongola ...

  8. Zulu traditional religion - Wikipedia

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    Zulu traditional religion consists of the beliefs and spiritual practices of the Zulu people of southern Africa. It contains numerous deities commonly associated with animals or general classes of natural phenomena. Unkulunkulu is known to be the Supreme Creator.

  9. Unkulunkulu - Wikipedia

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    Unkulunkulu (/uɲɠulun'ɠulu/), often formatted as uNkulunkulu, [1] is a mythical ancestor, mythical predecessor group, [2] or Supreme Creator in the language of the Zulu, Ndebele and Swati people. Originally a "first ancestor" figure, Unkulunkulu morphed into a creator god figure with the spread of Christianity. [3]