From a small clan, Shaka turns Zulu into a nation that ruled over a large portion of Southern Africa. He is considered one of the greatest Zulu leaders because of his military prowess, new tactics, destruction of his enemies, and assimilating the survivors of villages. Shaka is said to have molded a well-organized and centralized Zulu state with his military expertise, social, cultural, and political reforms. Shaka taught warfare to his constituent soldiers. While it was said that Shaka changed the nature of warfare in Africa from its former ritualized exchange of taunts with minimal loss of life into a more modern and brutal subjugation of wholesale slaughter, he also won other tribes through patronage and reward.
Instead of abandoning the clan that disowned him, Shaka Zulu helped in the building of a new nation. What matters most in Shaka Zulu’s history is that he has shown the courage of bearing with the past and living the future having characteristics of a leader. He faced his destiny and sought better opportunities as he learned from the past. Beyond courage, he had the bravery.