The Jew in King Shaka’s court: How a 19th-century castaway shaped a Zulu leader’s legacy

The memoir of Nathaniel Isaacs, a Jewish merchant who found himself shipwrecked in what is now South Africa, influenced Shaka ...
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Big Chief Shaka Zulu awarded National Heritage Fellowship

Shaka Zulu, the Big Chief of the Golden Feather Hunters and a renowned stilt dancer and drummer, was named one of 10 National Heritage Fellows in 2022 by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The ...
The Conversation

Shaka iLembe: finally, a TV series on the Zulu king that’s true to language and culture

Bongephiwe Dlamini-Myeni does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
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Sadly, Shaka ilembe goes out with a whimper

To many people in my kind of circles, all they know of the legendary Zulu king Shaka is from the 1986 TV series Shaka Zulu. I remember watching one or two of the episodes, but the cartoon character ...
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Shaka Zulu is back in pop culture – how the famous king has been portrayed over the decades

Dan Wylie received funding from Rhodes University when researching his books. Who was Shaka Zulu and what did you learn from writing about him? Shaka kaSenzangakhona is universally recognised as the ...