'"What does it mean to be Zulu today? Is this different from what it has meant in the past?" To answer these questions the editors assembled a team of fifty scholars, based mainly in North America and South Africa, with a scattering from Britain, and gave them the task of showing how "the characteristic traditions of a pre-industrial people have ... Read moreevolved into different cultural expressions of 'Zulu-ness' in modern South Africa" ... This is a book which is impressive in every way: in the breadth and depth of its scholarship, in its ability to shed light on key questions of Zulu history and culture, and, not least, in its readability. It is indispensable to anyone seeking to study "Zulu-ness" in all its aspects, and I cannot recommend it too highly. For a scholarly book of over 600 pages, it is also very attractively priced.'
Africa Research and Documentation Bulletin
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