Emperor Shaka the Great

Sarkin sarakuna Shaka mai girma waka ce ta al'ada da ta dogara da al'adar baka ta Zulu, wanda aka harhada cikin Zulu sannan mawakin Afirka ta Kudu Mazisi Kunene ya fassara. Waƙar ta biyo bayan rayuwar Shaka Zulu, inda ta rubuta abubuwan da ya yi a matsayinsa na sarkin Zulu, wanda ya samar da ci gaba mai yawa a tsarin Jiha da fasahar soja na Zulu. Wasu masu sukar lamirin sun bayyana damuwarsu kan yadda aka sake bayyana tarihin. Duk da haka, rungumar da Kunene ya yi game da ra'ayin Afirka game da mulkin Shaka yana nuna ƙoƙari na fahimtar abubuwan ban tsoro da Turawa suka gani a tarihin Shaka.

 Al'adar baka 
Ko da yake Zulu sun yi waƙar baka da yawa tun a farkon tarihi, ba a cika haɓakar almara na Zulu ba har sai lokacin mulkin Shaka. Kunene, Mazisi, Emperor Shaka the Great, p. xxv (1993), East African Publishers . Wannan waƙar tana wakiltar al'adar ƙasa ta rikodin mulkin Shaka ta hanyar masana tarihi da yawa na hukuma waɗanda suka kware a wani yanki na tarihin Shaka. Kunene (1993), Emperor Shaka the Great, p. xxviii. A al’adar Zulu, mawaka ( izimbongi ) su ne ma’anar ma’anar zamantakewar al’umma da kuma murnar al’umma da nasarorin da ta samu. Stewart, Jacelyn Y. (19 September

2009). "Mazisi Kunene, 76; Zulu Poet,

Teacher Fought Apartheid" . LA Times .

Retrieved 17 February 2010. Wani masani, da yake tsokaci game da aikin Kunene, ya ce “al’adun zulunci waɗannan ba labaran da aka haddace ba ne. . . Waɗannan su ne sake-halitta, sake-halitta dangane da halin yanzu. Kunene ya ƙware a wannan.”  Sashen Al'adu na UNESCO ya sanya wa littafin takunkumi a matsayin wakilin fassarar adabin Zulu.  For more information about the UNESCO selection see the representative works of South Africa

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