This has everything its subtitle promises, and more: it will run to
nearly 900 pages and has a long, long bibliography. While hardly
the book to consult for a fast grasp of the outlines of Zulu
history, it provides a sweeping, all-inclusive military, political,
and personal record, and if properly indexed it will surely be very
valuable to scholars. For the less dedicated reader (again,
dependent on indexing and careful chapter headings), there are
several sections well worth finding, especially the
brightly-written romantic chapter on Louis Napoleon and how he came
to die in Africa fighting for the English. The creation of a
unified nation of Zulus, the quirks of Boer politics, the
vacillation of the British before deciding to annex Zululand, and
the mistakes made by the first colonial administration after the
war was over, all in certain ways set the stage for the troubles of
southern Africa as we know them in recent times, and Morris
analyzes them thoroughly. He also provides a capsule guide to Zulu
spelling and pronounciation, but it is a question how much that
will aid the average reader in wading through a book with more than
its share of names like isaNgqu, umXhapo, and Gqikazi. (Kirkus
Reviews)
THE WASHING OF THE SPEARS is the definitive account of a tragic and awe-inspiring story;the rise of the Zulu nation in southern Africa and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu war of 1879. For more than a century after the European landing at Capetown in the C17th, the Boers had advanced unopposed into the vast interior of Africa. It was not until 1824 that Europeans came face to face with another expanding and imperial power, the Zulus - the most formidable nation in black Africa. That confrontation eventually culminated in a bitter war between the Zulu warriors and Victoria's British Army. It was the last despairing effort of africans to stem the tide of white civilisation. The result was a dramatic, legendary, and bloody defeat at Isandhlwana for the British;the aftermath was the defeat and fall of the remarkable Zulu nation.
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