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On the second documentary on the Kingdoms of Africa, historian Gus Cacely-Hayford makes his way to the southern part of Africa to learn about the fierce kingdom of the Zulu Nation. He starts by saying that on January 22nd, 1879, 200 British troops were defeated by the Zulus as he was expressing how influential the Zulu nation was as they were one of the most powerful kingdoms in Africa. In the 1700’s, there was once a cattle farmer that had a vision on how to unite the neighboring chiefdoms and transformed it into a great empire, and his name was Shaka.
It was fascinating for me to hear that the founder of the Zulu Nation, Shaka created a militarian society for his people by forming Zulu regiments called the amabutho and teaching young boys how to fight and become warriors. Because of this, the Zulus believed that in order to be a man in life, one needs to be a warrior, and one can start a family when their military services are completed. Seeing the concepts, however, of how the Zulus live reminded me of how the Spartans operated their militaristic ways in Greece. Even though the ...

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