zulu (african people)

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zulu (african people)

Zulus of southern Africa

1987
Introduces the history, culture, and everyday life of the Zulus, their interactions with white settlers, and opposition to the system of racial segregation known as apartheid.

The Zulu kingdom

1998
A survey of the history and culture of the Zulu kingdom that emerged between 1816 and 1818 on the east coast of southern Africa under the leadership of King Shaka.

The Zulus

1994
Presents the history and culture of the Zulu people through an exploration of their artifacts, customs, beliefs, and daily routines.

Zulu dog

2002
In post-apartheid South Africa, a Zulu boy keeps secrets from his family as he cares for an injured dog and befriends the daughter of a white farmer.

Halala means welcome!

a book of Zulu words
1998
Follows the activities of a boy at home in South Africa, and introduces a selection of Zulu words, a musical language with unusual clicking sounds.

A Zulu family

1986
Presents the experiences of an eleven-year-old Zulu girl and her family living in the South African homeland of Kwazulu , describing the work of her relatives and neighbors, her chores and schoolwork, and her pride in her Zulu heritage.

This thing called the future

a novel
2011
Fourteen-year-old Khosi's mother wants her to get an education to break out of their South African shantytown, although she herself is wasting away from an untreated illness, while Khosi's grandmother, Gogo, seeks help from a traditional Zulu healer.

The song of Jacob Zulu

1993
A drama inspired by the true story of the trial and execution of a nineteen-year-old black man who in 1985 set off a bomb in a South African shopping center at Christmastime, killing five people and injuring over fifty.

Marriage of the rain goddess

a South African myth
1996
A retelling of a Zulu myth about the joining of heaven and earth when Mbaba Mwana Waresa, the rain goddess, chooses a mortal for her husband.

Shaka

king of the Zulus
1988
A biography of the nineteenth-century military genius and Zulu chief.

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