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| | A Zulu Boy's recollections from 1879 | |
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Frank Allewell
Posts : 8572 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 77 Location : Cape Town South Africa
| Subject: A Zulu Boy's recollections from 1879 Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:33 am | |
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| | | 90th
Posts : 10881 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 67 Location : Melbourne, Australia
| Subject: Re: A Zulu Boy's recollections from 1879 Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:40 pm | |
| Hi Springbok. I actually have it but read it a long time ago . Cheers 90th. |
| | | littlehand
Posts : 7076 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 55 Location : Down South.
| Subject: Re: A Zulu Boy's recollections from 1879 Thu Jan 31, 2013 7:49 pm | |
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| | | free1954
Posts : 182 Join date : 2012-02-16 Location : northeast usa
| Subject: Re: A Zulu Boy's recollections from 1879 Fri Feb 01, 2013 12:37 am | |
| - springbok9 wrote:
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Fascinating souce material
Cheers a very good read sir, thank you for posting. did you notice how independant the zulu sub commanders were? i seemed in every actions they went ahead and fought in spite of counter orders from their superiors. do you know of any other zulu accounts of the war? |
| | | Frank Allewell
Posts : 8572 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 77 Location : Cape Town South Africa
| Subject: Re: A Zulu Boy's recollections from 1879 Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:59 am | |
| free 1954 If you have a look on the homepage there is a section of eye witness accounts. There are a few others, Littlehand is probably the best person to post links to them.
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| | | tasker224
Posts : 2101 Join date : 2010-07-30 Age : 57 Location : North London
| Subject: Re: A Zulu Boy's recollections from 1879 Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:34 pm | |
| - springbok9 wrote:
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Fascinating souce material
Cheers Fascinating secondary source material, yes. It reads like a basic book ooutlining the main battles of the AZW. This "Zulu Boy" seems to have known everything that there was to know about the AZW doesn't he?!?! |
| | | Frank Allewell
Posts : 8572 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 77 Location : Cape Town South Africa
| Subject: Re: A Zulu Boy's recollections from 1879 Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:51 am | |
| Hi Tasker Its interesting he lived in the iSandlwana area so visited the battle field and spoke to relatives and people involved in the battle. A major part of his story is relating converstions and stories he had listened to in the villages. So yes your right its probably more second hand stories, could even be a little bit of bragging. But still even as heresay its still full of information. And a delightful insight into the life of an umfaan.
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| | | tasker224
Posts : 2101 Join date : 2010-07-30 Age : 57 Location : North London
| Subject: Re: A Zulu Boy's recollections from 1879 Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:01 pm | |
| Hi Springy, I agree that the life and experiences of the Zulu boy are very interesting from gaining an insight into the attitudes and culture of the Zulu peole who lived around iSandlwana, I read the whole lot the other night - I was rivetted! The stories of the boy's life and times seem authentic. The stories of the battles? I am a little sceptical. They read like any other old contemporary account. Nothing new or revealing about the Zulu point of view. I wonder how much of this was actually told by the boy and how much was written in by the author. The accounts of the battle are all too conventional. The author may well have inreviewed this Zulu boy and the life and times are as told. The way I read it, the author has added in the parts about the AZW to make the book interesting to his potential audience. After all, few people at the time of publication would have been very interested in the life and times of a young, Zulu sheep herder; they wanted to know about the AZW. |
| | | Ray63
Posts : 705 Join date : 2012-05-05
| Subject: Re: A Zulu Boy's recollections from 1879 Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:19 pm | |
| Is this the same book as " Zulu War Jabulani Africa 1879-1882" |
| | | 90th
Posts : 10881 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 67 Location : Melbourne, Australia
| Subject: Re: A Zulu Boy's recollections from 1879 Sun Feb 03, 2013 5:36 am | |
| Hi Ray63. No , the Jabalani book is a different one . Jabalani from memory is a work of Fiction based on fact . Cheers 90th. |
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