Most Zulu leaders are not down w that fakkit sh1t. Of course there are gays amongst them, but they are looked at as .... what they are.
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There was a reason that Shaka was the most famous one of all...
and it pains me to say this sh1t. But he was a sell out CAKRAKER loving muthafukka who allowed then to come in and rape his people and set up shop on their land. So of course white people ALLOW him to get hyped up , made movies of, and the real leaders of the Zulu tribe to get lost in History. He let the people build forts, take over trade routes and ports, he let them come in an culturally influence his people (basically the reason for the sh1t we are currently discussing), etc etc.
Plus he acted like a historical white leader after his moms died -' According to Donald Morris in this mourning period Shaka ordered that no crops should be planted during the following year, no milk (the basis of the Zulu diet at the time) was to be used, and any woman who became pregnant was to be killed along with her husband. At least 7,000 people who were deemed to be insufficiently grief-stricken were executed, though it wasn't restricted to humans, cows were slaughtered so that their calves would know what losing a mother felt like.'
That's some white boy sh1t... and the black leader who was once a fierce warrior, proud African, turned into some crazy person who thought it was a good idea to allow crakker traders to influence their culture and ways.
BTW, this is just my take on it. But I think of it like this, and I thought this since HS. He started off w a rough childhood because he was a b*stard, not born out of marriage between a man and a woman (which is anti zulu). That made him tough. he invented weapons and military strategy and bodied larger tribes. Then white people come along and fck it alllll up. He acts crazy and let them influence him, just because they promised to help him keep winning wars. There's a wax life size scene of this at the Museum here- and it disgust me every time i c it- because he signed over maddd land to these manipulative people. There's a reason the other leaders put him in a pot and left him for the vultures to eat .