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Chaka

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Chaka: see Shaka Shaka (shä`kä), d. 1828, paramount chief (1818–28) of the Zulus.
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Shaka, Chaka
died 1828, Zulu military leader, who founded the Zulu Empire in southern Africa


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[*] Then there remains the most interesting subject--that, as it is, has only been touched on incidentally--of the magnificent system of military organisation in force in that country, which, in my opinion, is much superior to that inaugurated by Chaka in Zululand, inasmuch as it permits of even more rapid mobilisation, and does not necessitate the employment of the pernicious system of enforced celibacy.
So he pushed along on his journey, and all went well until he had passed the little town of Stanger, once the site of Duguza, the kraal of Chaka, the first Zulu king and the uncle of Cetywayo.
 
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