Shaka Zulu
Life and reign
The founder of the Zulu kingdom who revolutionized warfare with the short stabbing spear and the buffalo horns formation. He forged a nation from scattered clans, and the upheavals of his era, the Mfecane, reshaped southern Africa. Assassinated by his half brothers in 1828.
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