by Dan Wylie
"Shaka, the Zulu 'founder-king', is one of southern Africa's best known leaders. He is also one of the most powerful symbolic figures in all South African history and literature. Yet we know almost nothing about Shaka - not even what he looked like, let alone what his politics were, or how his mind worked." "Despite this, stories about Shaka are given the status of fact in innumerable textbooks, histories, encyclopaedias, novels, and films. These stories - particularly those spread by white writers - have almost no basis in demonstrable evidence. Savage Delight: White Myths of Shaka argues that the stories about Shaka have become a complex but normative myth serving interests other than fidelity to historical truth." "Why have the stories of Shaka developed by white writers from earliest eyewitnesses through to contemporary novelists, poets and historians become so entrenched and uniform despite the evidence? Why have white writers written about Shaka in the way that they have? What do
V. E. Schwab
Alex Popa
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