Isandlwana Lecture – Musical

Isandlwana Lecture – The Musical, is a story about the Battle of iSandlwana and the conquest of the Zulu nation over the English at the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. It chronicles a twenty thousand strong spear-carrying and barefooted Zulu Regiment disgracing and defeating Sir Henry Chamsford’s gun-carrying English Regiment.
The Zulus won the battle but lost the war. It is these remnants of loss from iSandlwana that are retold in order for the young learn the truth of what truly transpired spiritually and sociocultural for uZulu at the Battle of iSandlwana.
The underlying themes carried through in this production and the story of iSandlwana are those of a relentless pursuit for power and conquest of Zulu kings including a history of bloodbaths on their trail to the ascension to the throne, equaled with that of colonisation of the English, their cruelty, culture erosion and dispossession of peoples of the world by the English.
Isandlwana Lecture – The Musical, is a story about the Battle of iSandlwana and the conquest of the Zulu nation over the English at the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. It chronicles a twenty thousand strong spear-carrying and barefooted Zulu Regiment disgracing and defeating Sir Henry Chamsford’s gun-carrying English Regiment.
The Zulus won the battle but lost the war. It is these remnants of loss from iSandlwana that are retold in order for the young learn the truth of what truly transpired spiritually and sociocultural for uZulu at the Battle of iSandlwana.
The underlying themes carried through in this production and the story of iSandlwana are those of a relentless pursuit for power and conquest of Zulu kings including a history of bloodbaths on their trail to the ascension to the throne, equaled with that of colonisation of the English, their cruelty, culture erosion and dispossession of peoples of the world by the English.