The Formation of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa, 1750-1840 [Hardcover]

James Oliver Gump (Author)

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Hardcover: 220 pages
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr (January 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0773498982
ISBN-13: 978-0773498983
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.9 x 1.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g

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This study argues that the Zulu kingdom did not emerge as a revolutionary outburst; rather, that state formation among the northern Nguni-speaking peoples of Southern Africa began as much as a half-century before Shaka. The evidence suggests that this process began among lowland chiefdoms as a defensive response to the incursions of upland pastoralists. Lowland chiefdoms transformed traditional circumcision sets into multi-functional "amabutho" for better defence and productivity. When famine occurred in the early 1800s, major ruling houses made use of disciplined age-set regiments to compete for desirable ecological zones. The Zulu leader Shaka (c1787-1828) based his expansionary programme on these versatile "amabutho" and from them forged a centralized state.