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'''Shaka''' (isiZulu: ''ishaka'', "illegitimate child"<ref>http://isizulu.net/</ref>; 1787 - 1828), African military leader and king of the Zulu (1816-1828) over much of what is now present-day [[South Africa]]. Despised and ridiculed when young, vindictive, cruel, and in his later years insane, he would use innovative weapons and tactics and turn a small, insignificant tribe into one of history's most fearsome fighting machines.
[[File:KingShaka.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Shaka; sketch attributed to James King, from ''Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa'', by Nathanial Isaacs (1836).]]
'''Shaka''' or '''Shaka Zulu''' (spelled variously as '''Chaka''' or '''Tshaka'''; from isiZulu: ''ishaka'', "illegitimate child"<ref>http://isizulu.net/</ref>; 1787 - 1828), African military leader and king of the Zulu (1816-1828) over much of what is now present-day [[South Africa]]. Despised and ridiculed when young, vindictive, cruel, and in his later years insane, he would use innovative weapons and tactics and turn a small, insignificant tribe into one of history's most fearsome fighting machines.
==History==
==History==