AmaZulu - Walton Golightly

Set on the southeast coast of southern Africa in the early 1800s, Walton Golightly's magnificent historical epic tells the story of Shaka, the father of the Zulu nation. An illegitimate and bullied child, Shaka shrugged off his troubled past to become the ruler of one of Africa's mightiest empires. Combining revolutionary military tactics with a frightening thirst for revenge, Shaka was able to conquer great swathes of southern Africa for the Zulu people, creating an empire as powerful and revered as Napoleon's France and Caesar's Rome. Brimful of intrigue, heroism, pageantry, nobility, treachery and some of the most magnificent battle scenes one could hope for, AmaZulu sweeps across the burned hills of South East Africa's interior to tell the story of Shaka's irresistible rise to power. AmaZulu is the first in a trilogy that tracks the birth and growth of the Zulu empire to its ultimate clash with the British empire in 1879