AMB
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:49 pm |
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All,
I have just got a copy of Zulu Identities: Being Zulu Past and Present, published by the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press 2008. ISBN 978-1-86914-154-7. I�ve seen some people quoting as much as �75, but got my copy from SA for R400.
This is an interesting and large book (633pp) regarding what it was/is to be Zulu. There is some reference to the AZW (chapters by Laband, Knight & Guy) and much on the colonial period.
I have not read the book cover to cover, but have read those chapters sighted above, which are sound academic pieces regarding the Zulu�s involvement with the British Empire. There seem to be some very interesting chapters relating to Shaka and the early kings (again, not yet read these, but authored by Dan Wylie, Laband and Sifiso Ndlovu).
If your interest is solely the AZW, I would suggest that this book can be missed; if your interest in [colonial] Africa and the Zulu in particular, then this book looks to be a �must have� for one�s shelf.
AMB
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