that later made him a successful warrior. That was also where he came under the guidance of Dingiswayo, an important factor in the shaping of his thinking. Dingiswayo introduced age regiments where young men were called up to serve for a part of every year, men from the same households and villages were put in different regiments, their allegiance primarily to the ruler of the chiefdom, Dingiswayo, and secondarily t...
Shaka kaSenzangakhona, also known as Shaka Zulu, was one of the most influential Zulu leaders in history. He was a great king and conqueror to the Zulu’s. He was best known for uniting many of the northern Nguni people into the Zulu Kingdom. Shaka was born in what is known today as KwaZulu-Natal Province, approximately in 1787 and died on the 24th of September 1828. He reigned from 1816 to 1828. Shaka was the child of Senzangakhona, who was a highly ranked chief of the Zulu kingdom, and Nandi,
According to the English author and philosopher, Edmund Burke, “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” (Burke) This often proves to be true in Thomas Mofolo’s novel Chaka. Power is a corruptive concept. If you do not have a genuinely selfless heart, you will become corrupted by your own power, which often happened to those of power in this novel. However, even though power is often seen as having influence over others, power can also be distinctly self-centered. Power can be expressed