Carolyn Hamilton. Terrific Majesty:...

Carolyn Hamilton. Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention. Cambridge: Harvard UP 1998 215 pp ISBN 0-674-87446-3 $1895

When asked, principally of my American undergraduates can replenish the names of sum of two units famous Africans. One is Nelson Mandela, whose face and story have appeared in the worldwide media since his release from Robben Island prison in 1990 The other is Shaka, a Southern African leader who lived and died in relatively unintelligible circumstances during the early nineteenth hundred What has elevated this latter figure to a position of