Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Maps ix
Foreword xiv
Zulu Names xv
Timeline of Events Significant to the Zulu People xvii
Glossary of Terms xx
Introduction xxvi
Chapter 1 The Emergence of the Zulus 1
Chapter 2 Shaka and the Second Mfecane 8
Chapter 3 Zulu Rituals and Customs 23
Chapter 4 White Expansionism in South Africa and the Eight Frontier Wars 35
Chapter 5 Passing the Crown: From Kings Shaka, Dingane and Mpande to King Cetshwayo 55
Chapter 6 The Emergence of King Cetshwayo 64
Chapter 7 Defending their Nation 91
Chapter 8 Isandlwana 104
Chapter 9 To Rorke's Drift 115
Chapter 10 Nyezane and Gingindlovu 125
Chapter 11 Ntombe, Hlobane and Khambula 137
Chapter 12 The Zulu Defence of Ulundi, and the Prince Imperial Louis Napoleon 152
Chapter 13 The Battle of kwaNodwengu-Uimdi, 4 July 1879 158
Chapter 14 Beginning of the End 164
Chapter 15 Closure of the Zulu War 171
Chapter 16 Long Live the King 185
Appendices 195
A The Mfecane 195
B Boer Account: Blood River 197
C Chelmsford's Orders to the Five Invasion Columns 198
D The Ultimatum 200
E King Cetshzvayo in London 206
Notes 209
Bibliography 217
Index 220