Mazisi Kunene is the much-celebrated author of epics, poems, short stories, nursery rhymes and proverbs. In UNodumehlezi KaMenzi (Emperor Shaka the Great), which he wrote during a period in exile, he positions Shaka as a legendary thinker, who had great skill as a strategic and military genius. This vision acknowledges and re-imagines Shaka as a unifying cultural and political force.
