what country did the zulu live in?
Zambia Zimbabwe Mozambique KwaZulu-Natal
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 During the 1810s , the Zulu Kingdom was established in southern Africa by the warrior king Shaka , who united a number of rival clans into a centralised monarchy . Among the Zulu Kingdom 's main leaders and military commanders was Mzilikazi , who enjoyed high royal favour for a time , but ultimately provoked the king 's wrath by repeatedly offending him . When Shaka forced Mzilikazi and his followers to leave the country in 1823 , they moved north @-@ west to the Transvaal , where they became known as the Ndebele or " Matabele " — both names mean " men of the long shields " . Amid the period of war and chaos locally called mfecane ( " the crushing " ) , the Matabele quickly became the region 's dominant tribe . In 1836 , they negotiated a peace treaty with Sir Benjamin d 'Urban , Governor of the British Cape Colony , but the same year Boer Voortrekkers moved to the area , during their Great Trek away from British rule in the Cape . These new arrivals soon toppled Mzilikazi 's domination of the Transvaal , compelling him to lead another migration north in 1838 . Crossing the Limpopo River , the Matabele settled in the Zambezi – Limpopo watershed 's south @-@ west ; this area has since been called Matabeleland . 

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 Around 1821 , the Zulu general Mzilikazi of the Khumalo clan successfully rebelled against King Shaka and created his own clan , the Ndebele . The Ndebele fought their way northwards into the Transvaal , leaving a trail of destruction in their wake and beginning an era of widespread devastation known as the Mfecane . When Dutch trekboers converged on the Transvaal in 1836 , they drove the tribe even further northward . By 1838 , the Rozwi Empire , along with the other smaller Shona states were conquered by the Ndebele and reduced to vassaldom . 

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 Before the start of the colonial period , the region of South Kasai formed part of the Luba Empire , a federation of local kingdoms with a degree of cultural uniformity . During the 17th and 18th centuries , the Baluba spread across large parts of the Kasai @-@ Katanga savannah along the Kasai river basin and eventually developed into a number of ethnic subgroups , notably the Luba @-@ Kasai and the Luba @-@ Katanga . Although never united into a single centralised state , the groups retained a degree of emotional attachment based around shared origin myths and cultural practices . Other groups , like the Songye and the Kanyok , also had long histories in the Kasai region . 

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 Zulu affairs : correspondence , December , 1896 – January , 1897 between Sir John Robinson and H. E. Colenso , Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection , 1897 , JSTOR 60232760 

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 The conclusion of the Anglo @-@ Zulu War in 1879 had resulted in the imprisonment of the Zulu king Cetshwayo on Robben Island and the division of the Zulu Kingdom into 13 chiefdoms . In 1883 , after John Colenso , Bishop of Natal , appealed on his behalf , Cetshwayo was released and restored to power . Zibhebhu kaMaphitha , one of the 13 Zulu chiefs , led a force against Cetshwayo and on 22 July 1883 defeated him in Ulundi . Cetshwayo escaped injured but died in February 1884 , leaving his son Dinuzulu to inherit the throne . He ultimately succeeded in driving out Zibhebhu with the help of Transvaal Boers . 
