Women Power: A contribution to the role of African women during and after Anglo-Zulu conflicts of the 19th century and beyond

Abstract

This paper attempts to re- examine the women role during the Anglo- Zulu confrontation of the 19th century and women supremacy in the Zulu kingdom in innumerable historical trajectories. The paper endeavors to illustrate famine power in terms of their identity, choices and space they occupied. The approach in the paper attempts to link women’s spaces and location regarding social, cultural and historical discourse in the history of African Zulu women. Their role during the war, after the regiment departed to war and traditional healer- ship are amongst key aspect of the deliberations. Women as  regiments presupposes the inapplicability of gender analysis in a historical context  where differences is (mediated) negated by a number of power relations in African  tradition and culture. What the contemporary women could learn from the positive  contribution of the past? Indeed this paper is the general contribution to role of African women, Amazulu women in perspectives, as the Zulu nation commemorates the 200  years centenary of the foundation of the Zulu kingdom by King Shaka in 1816.