Turning Tides: Zulu Empire: The Crushing, 1000 - 1828: Episode 1

Turning Tides: Zulu Empire will discuss the rise and fall of the Zulu Empire. The first episode, The Crushing, will cover the period from 1000 to 1828, in which Shaka created the Zulu Empire through conquest.

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Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Researched and written by Joseph Pascone

Edited and revised by Melissa Marie Brown

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Episode 1 Sources:

1. Zulu Empire Decolonised: Epic History of the Zulu from Pre-Colonial Times to the 21st Century, by Shalo Mbatha

2. The Zulus and Matabele: Warrior Nations, by Glen Lyndon Dodds

3. The Zulu Kings, by Brian Roberts

4. The Anglo Zulu War: Isandlwana: the Revelation of a Disaster, by Ron Lock

5. Africa Through the Eyes of the Other: A Collection of Observations made by European Colonizers, Explorers, and Missionaries in regard to the Zulu, published by abū Firnās & Co., Kharțūm, Sūdān

6. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2682489/

7. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nguni

8. https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0038-23532014000300013

9. http://culture-review.co.za/mfecane-never-happened#:~:text=As%20such%2C%20the%20overriding%20argument,that%20Shaka%20Zulu%20instigated%20it.

10. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-05-12-the-story-of-an-mfecane-mega-drought-is-written-in-the-trees/

11. /https://humanities.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/content_migration/humanities_uct_ac_za/1009/files/2004_MS4.pdf

12. Wikipedia

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