stackyFACTSThe fearsome military machine that famously broke British lines at Isandlwana was built on an incredibly rigid system of teenage peer pressure.
The fearsome military machine that famously broke British lines at Isandlwana was built on an incredibly rigid system of teenage peer pressure. Shaka radically transformed Zulu society by abolishing local tribal allegiances and grouping young men entirely by their age cohort. These 'amabutho' lived, trained, and fought together for decades, forging an unbreakable psychological bond where retreating in front of your childhood friends was a fate worse than death.
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