Inventing Shaka: Using History in the Construction of Zulu Nationalism - Hardcover

Golan, Daphna

 
9781555873493: Inventing Shaka: Using History in the Construction of Zulu Nationalism

Synopsis

King Shaka was the 19th-century Zulu emperor used by Inkatha to assert its right to shape South Africa's future. This text explores the image of Shaka as constructed and reconstructed in historical texts from the 1830s until the present.

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About the Author

Daphna Golan is instructor in African Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and coordinator of the Africa Research Unit of the university's Truman Institute.

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