yep - the spartans of the africa as someone called them

they even managed to defeat brits in one battle

Also the mali people

thats impressive

They got lucky lol

And large numbers

brits uderestimate Zulu and overestimated themselves

They simply had no chance against the british with spears and wooden shields

People jack off the british empire but they actually sucked

“Eleven days after the British commenced their invasion of Zululand in South Africa, a Zulu force of some 20,000 warriors attacked a portion of the British main column consisting of about 1,800 British, colonial and native troops and perhaps 400 civilians.”

It gets touted as “simple tribesmen annihilated weak european colonizers!”
but really it’s more like “african warlord threw his entire army at a single platoon and called it a victory”

and it was basically just the first real encounter, so they had the element of surprise
but as soon as the Brits regrouped, it was obviously over very quickly
and that’s why South Africans speak almost-British English now

wiki says about 50% africanos

yeah, they’ve definitely started taking it back
good on em

and part where zulus lived uses native language

its because Bur's took over there

the language bit was a joke
my point was the brits won in the end, and the zulu victory is less a story of “david standing up to goliath” and more like “david and 10 of his mates bumrushing goliath when he wasn’t looking and then inevitably getting their asses kicked once goliath’s 20 friends showed up”

ah underdeveloped african tribe lost a war against sorld superpower how unpredictable

I’m just mentioning it because like
I never heard the rest of that story growing up
every time i heard about Shaka Zulu, it was as a brave warrior who was so ferocious, he managed to stop the invasion of his home with nothing but leather shields and iron clubs

nah its not like that

and then i looked him up when i was a little older, and realized nearly his entire tribe got *fucked* as soon as that battle was over

zulus had no chance

in a long run

yeah

but they fought as good as they could

but they don’t tell you that as a kid

Oh yeah, they did a good job for what they had, good on em

its like fighting an Alliance from HL2

the whole resitance thing is just like minkeys fighting in a deep forest

i think it was fucked up of the British to just take the whole region like that
and I think the Zulus did what they could for as long as they could, as they should
but then, I’ve never been a fan of colonialism anyways

Alliance is busy with bulding Dyson Spheres

only Americans are allowed to Manifest our Destiny

everyone else needs to stay where they are and wait for us to get to them next

they will go away as every major force before them

nothing is ethernal

I know, just meming

I think America is probably as big as a nation can sustainably be, really

like, geographically

anything bigger and you get too thin-spread, it all falls apart in a century or two

china is kinda big too

Yeah, they’re doing good as well