African Leaders Part One: Zulu, Amin & Mugabe Documentary

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"Until the lion learns how to write, the hunt will always glorify the hunter" -- Chinua Achebe

Shaka kaSezangakhona is one of the greatest warriors who ever lived on the African continent, a military genius, and the most powerful king who ruled in southern Africa. We Africans have no doubt at all and do not rely on eurocentric narratives. In our book of bravery, Shaka is our hero, the personification of greatness!

It never ceases the amaze me how history is always written by the conquerors and so it'll always be written in such a way that they look good, while those who they pillaged looks bad... The fact of the matter, Shaka Zulu was an African, right? Those White-skinned men were not... So simply by him being able to set up a kingdom that lasted over 50 years ON HIS OWN CONTINENT, without him having to go to the White-skinned man's continent, that alone is an everlasting testament to this place in AFRICAN history, and that's all that matters!!!

African Leaders Part Two: Kwame Nkrumah, King Lobengula and Thomas Sankara...... Something positive for a breath of freshness.....

We baganda, basoga (of uganda) a few tanzanians , zambians, zimbabwe, lesothoz zulus of south africa and malawi plus the rest of southern african countries have similar cultures and dialects. I never change my langauage when i go there i simply speak my language and life goes on!

Wow, you actually made the throat “click” for the Nguni language pronunciation of Gqokli Hill! 9:39

Would love to see a Part 3 to this series ... maybe Sankara, Sirleaf, and Lumumba? Lesser known people whose effect on history was still profound.

As a Ugandan, i can now see why we are so connected with South Africa (Bantu & Zulu)

This presentation deserves clicks, as your mastery of Bantu "clicks" is amazing.

I made a call from my VCU dormitory room to the United Nations in New York in 1979 and asked why it had not pressed to have Idi Amin deposed. A short time thereafter, I noticed while still at the Virginia Commonwealth University that Idi Amin fled into exile.

Wow,the respect for the language with the 'clicks' threw me for a loop. Much respect!💯

Please do a piece on Mzilikazi. A roving warrior king who was mentored by Shaka. He went on an adventure conquering various tribes as he trailed through South Africa till he settled in what is now Zimbabwe. Great explorers and missionaries like William Cornwallis Harris, David Livingstone and Robert Moffat have written extensively about him.

I disagree if you say polygamy was part of the Zulu people. The practice was actually followed by Abathembu a sub-group or tribe that formed part of the Zulu nation. This is why it is called "isiThembu" to confirm that it was associated with Abathembu people. Others borrowed from AbaThembu. Again, people from the defeated tribe were not killed instead they formed part of the victorious king. It is important to remember that wars were fought for clearly defined reasons Viz to create peace and forge unity and expand nations. If people remained small competing tribes it created more wars amongst competing tribes. In some instances leaders of different tribes sat down and agreed in peaceful joining hands and unity. This is how king Shaka brought in Mkhize, Sithole's, Cele and others. We must also bear in mind that when Shaka was made the overall joint king of both Mthethwa kingdom and Zulu tribe he inherited a much bigger and well established kingdom that king Dingiswayo had assembled. He later won a much bigger Ndwandwe kingdom assembled by king Zwide. He then controlled two biggest competing kingdoms in the region. This is why many people conveniently resorted to a sound logic that it means that more wars were used to build the kingdom why ignoring the facts that he merged two biggest kingdoms in the region.

There are plenty of African leaders and dictators to make an episode on. Francisco Nguema, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Mobutu Sese Seko, Laurent Kabila, and Jean-Bedel Bokassa just to name a few.

Thank you for having a wide swath of people profiled.

Shaka Zulu was a true African warlord king and a hero! It's just so unfortunate that we didn't have more kings like him on the continent, because if that had been the case, I highly doubt that Africa would have been as easily conquered and colonized by Europeans as it was. But that's just my own opinion! 🤔

Shaka should have taught his people to read and write while learning to use modern weapons as the gun and canons.

Nigeria use to teach history when I was in secondary school but today it's no more, they have stopped teaching history and I don't know why, May God help us all 🙏

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