Emperor Shaka the Great

Emperor Shaka the Great
Title Emperor Shaka the Great PDF eBook
Author Mazisi Kunene
Publisher Heinemann Educational Publishers
Pages 494
Release 1979
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Emperor Shaka the Great is an epic poem based on the Zulu oral tradition, compiled in Zulu then translated by South African Poet Mazisi Kunene. The epic follows the life of Shaka Zulu. The poem documents his exploits as a king of the Zulu people, produced considerable advances in State structure and military technologies of the Zulu. Some critics express concern over the historicity of the retelling. However, Kunene's embrasure of an African perspective on Shaka's Rule expresses an attempt at understanding the apparent horrors observed by Europeans in the Shaka's history.

Emperor Shaka the Great

Emperor Shaka the Great
Title Emperor Shaka the Great PDF eBook
Author Mazisi Kunene
Publisher East African Publishers
Pages 484
Release 1978
Genre
ISBN 9789966468697

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Emperor Shaka the Great

Emperor Shaka the Great
Title Emperor Shaka the Great PDF eBook
Author Mazisi Kunene
Publisher
Pages 438
Release 2017
Genre History
ISBN 9781869143169

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Mazisi Kunene is the much-celebrated author of epics, such as Emperor Shaka the Great (UNodumehlezi KaMenzi) and Anthem of the Decades (Inhlokomo Yeminyaka), as well as numerous poems, short stories, nursery rhymes and proverbs that amount to a collection of more than 10 000 works. He was born in aMahlongwa in 1930, a small rural village on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. As a young man born into Zulu tradition, his calling as an imbongi was taken very seriously by his father and grandfather who encouraged him to write. Professor Kunene described this 'calling' to write as 'something [that] is not me, it is the power that rides me like a horse.' Kunene was Professor in African Literature at Stanford University and in African Literature and Languages at the University of California, Los Angeles. On his return to South Africa, he was Professor in African Languages at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He went into exile in the 1960s for more than 34 years, during which time he established and managed the African National Congress office in London, and later moved to Los Angeles with his family to pursue his academic career. In his epic poem Emperor Shaka the Great (UNodumehlezi KaMenzi), which he wrote during this exile period, he positions Shaka as a legendary thinker, who had great skill as a strategic and military genius. This vision acknowledges and re-imagines Shaka as a unifying cultural and political force that defined the cohesive Zulu nation. Kunene projects Shaka into the mythical ancestral universe that affirms the deep cultural lineage of the African world view. This reprinted English edition is published, along with the isiZulu edition, UNodumehlezi KaMenzi, on the tenth anniversary of his death, embracing Kunene's original dream to have his poem published as intended in the original isiZulu form. The symbolic and cultural significance of these publications begins a process of re-evaluating and recontextualising Kunene's writing oeuvre. [Subject: Poetry, Fiction, African Studies]

Chaka

Chaka
Title Chaka PDF eBook
Author Thomas Mofolo
Publisher Waveland Press
Pages 193
Release 2013-05-21
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1478609729

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Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions of black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolos fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future Zulu kings birth followed by the unwarranted taunts and abuse he receives during childhood and adolescence. The author manipulates events leading to Chakas status of great Zulu warrior, conqueror, and king to emphasize classic tragedys psychological themes of ambition and power, cruelty, and ultimate ruin. Mofolos clever nods to the supernatural add symbolic value. Kunenes fine translation renders the dramatic and tragic tensions in Mofolos tale palpable as the richness of the authors own culture is revealed. A substantial introduction by the translator provides valuable context for modern readers.

Zulu Poems

Zulu Poems
Title Zulu Poems PDF eBook
Author Mazisi Kunene
Publisher Africana Pub.
Pages 104
Release 1970
Genre Poetry
ISBN

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Anthem of the Decades

Anthem of the Decades
Title Anthem of the Decades PDF eBook
Author Mazisi Kunene
Publisher Heinemann Educational Books
Pages 452
Release 1981
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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A History of South African Literature

A History of South African Literature
Title A History of South African Literature PDF eBook
Author Christopher Heywood
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 320
Release 2004-11-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781139455329

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This book is a critical study of South African literature, from colonial and pre-colonial times onwards. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over 100 authors and selected works, including poets from Mqhayi, Marais and Campbell to Butler, Serote and Krog, theatre writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel prizewinners Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, notably the rise and fall of the Emperor Shaka's Zulu kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and post-colonial wars of 1899, 1914, and 1939, and the dissolution of apartheid society. In Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.