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• W344360052 abstract "Zulu identities: being Zulu, past and present; edited by Benedict Carton, John Laband and Jabulani Sithole. London: Hurst, 2009. xxv + 633 pp. ISBN 978-185065-952-5. £25. What does it mean to be Zulu today? Is this different from what it has meant in past? To answer these questions - as posed on back cover of this book - editors assembled team of fifty scholars, based mainly in North America and South Africa, with scattering from Britain, and gave them task of showing how the characteristic traditions of pre-industrial people have evolved into different cultural expressions of 'Zulu-ness' in modern South Africa. Moreover, with defeat of apartheid and emergence of democracy in South Africa, editors hoped that project would play part in freeing South African history from its past constraints and prejudices. The result is quite simply tour de force, collection of fifty-two distinct chapters, none more than twenty pages long, each of which explores in stimulating and accessible way its chosen theme. And although written by academics for academics, it deserves far wider audience, especially for those chapters which debunk some of myths which, for example, surround nature of Shaka's rule, Zulu militarism, or relationship between Mangosuthu Buthelezi and ANC leader Albert Luthuli. In brief review, it is possible to do no more than refer to few of themes running through this monumental book. On Shaka, for example, Dan Wylie returns to some of arguments he has made at greater length in his book Myth of Iron: Shaka in history} In doing so, he makes important point that we have as historians is text [original emphasis], writing, crafted literature, subject to all limitations and wiles of language (p.82). Thus European witnesses to Shaka's rule, notably Isaacs and Fynn, depicted themselves as morally upright citizens carrying light of European civilisation into heart of darkness, whereas they were, actually, frontier ruffians grubbing for quick buck (p. 83). Moreover, their original writings were rewritten by editors with their own agendas before being published, and mythology gradually replaced history. Wylie points out that this was by no means only nineteenth century phenomenon. He draws attention to E. A Ritter's influential Shaka Zulu. In this, Ritter gave detailed and dramatic account of battle of Qokli Hill which has been copied by many writers since (including, Wylie notes, present-day authors of business strategies). However, Wylie says, there is no evidence whatsoever that such battle happened (p.85). Similarly, John Wright's chapter on Shaka revisits vexed question of mfecane, and whether it actually existed outside minds of earlier writers on Zulu history. He takes particular issue with AT Bryant's influential Olden Times in Zululand and Natal (1929), describing it as dramatised and hyperbolic and inherited directly from settler stereotype (p. 73). And, following Cobbing, he reduces mfecane to a product of search made by imperialist and settler ideologues for plausible alibi for colonial- and imperial-based interests, whose aggressions were ultimately responsible for violence and social disruptions of period (p. 70). A few of chapters explore how, after Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, Zulu 'warrior stereotype' entered British popular culture. Jeff Guy explores how Zulu lziqu - necklaces of carved wooden beads denoting bravery or other qualities - evolved into prestigious Wood Badge of Scouts, and gives fascinating account of how Baden-Powell may have acquired his first iziqu during his time in Zululand. …" @default.
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