Kunene, Mazisi. Anthem of the Decades. London: Heineman, 1981.

Abstract

This epic, together with Mazisi Kunene's Emperor Shaka the Great, throws down a challenge to all the preconceptions about African literature. A reader has responded to that challenge, maintaining that 'While its wellspring of inspiration derives from the traditional boasts and Zulu cosmology it is not a pastiche, an imitation or a compilation. It is an original creation, carried by a majestic and in some ways unfettered imagination, ywt an imagination harnessed to reason and structure. The structure gives it coherence and power.