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Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. It both touches your heart deeply and inspires a renewed faith in the dignity of mankind. Cry, the Beloved Country...
3) Zulu dog
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In post-apartheid South Africa, a Zulu boy keeps secrets from his family as he cares for an injured dog and befriends the daughter of a white farmer.
4) Under water
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After her beloved grandmother's death, seventeen-year-old Khosi is left with an empty house, her younger sister, and her promise to finish school but violence in Imbali may take even that.
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A time of bloody conflict and great turmoil. The slave trade expands from the east African coast. Europeans spread inland from the south. And one young boy is destined to change the future of southern Africa. This retelling of the Shaka legend explores the rise to power of a shrewd young prince who must consolidate a new kingdom through warfare, mediation, and political alliances to defend his people against the expanding slave trade. A worthy introduction...
6) Shaka Zulu
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Shaka Zulu is the powerful true story of tribal Africa during the turbulent 19th century. This critically acclaimed mini-series follows the life of Shaka, a powerful and mighty Zulu leader, as he grows up to fulfill an ancient tribal prophecy, uniting his people into a bold new nation. Shaka is driven by his extraordinary intelligence, courage, astounding physical ability an immortal stance, leading his proud warriors in their quest to be one people,...
8) Yesterday
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After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and a young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school. Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa.
10) The Zulus
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Presents the history and culture of the Zulu people through an exploration of their artifacts, customs, beliefs, and daily routines.
13) Zulu
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Surveys the culture, history, and contemporary life of the Zulu people of South Africa.
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Fighting spears to bayonets, black against white, the Zulus met the British at Isandlwana in 1879 in the first great battle of perhaps the bloodiest and most dramatic war in African colonial history. The Zulu warriors took on Queen Victoria's "red soldiers" and massacred them. Despite the incredible victory of the astonishingly brave black warriors, when the bloodletting of the ferocious conflict ended, 10,000 Zulus lay dead, and with them, the last...
17) Zulu summer
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After receiving a suspicious e-mail from an African prince, a radio DJ in small-town Montana forges an international alliance that will change the lives of people continents apart.
18) The Zulu kingdom
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A survey of the history and culture of the Zulu kingdom that emerged between 1816 and 1818 on the east coast of southern Africa under the leadership of King Shaka.
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"It is a time of triumph, and looming danger. The defeat of the slaver clans in Shaka Rising augers well for the Zulu kingdom, but the ominous tide of colonization is rising as foreign fortune hunters arrive like swallows from across the sea...and in King Shaka's own lands, insidious treachery threatens the balance of power. King Shaka continues the re-telling of the legend of an African hero who faces new challenges in a changing world as he strives...
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