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 A Zulu theatrical company re-enacted the massacre of British troops at Isandhlwana.

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There's history that the Center doesn't generally recognize as history. A lot of that history concerns how the Center is often the baddie in international conflicts. Most of British history amounts to "We want that land and those resources and if you won't submit to our impossible demands, we'll have no choice but to use armed aggression to take them." And to get support for these aggressions, they simply Other the non-Centered people in ways that allow for popular support of murdering them and stealing their land and resources. "They're not civilized. They aren't making proper use of resources we could really use. They're overly aggressive and cannot live among us." But really the only argument the Centered people need to attempt to add another country to their Empire is this one: "They don't have modern weapons like us! They're practically begging us to destroy them!" That's just a variation on "Might makes right." But even "might makes right" doesn't tell the whole story because sometimes even with better weapons, you still get your ass handed to you by 20,000 Zulu warriors. And then you'd think if you believed in "might makes right," you'd have to step back and say, "Well, they sure did smite us with their might! I guess they're right! Better let them be!" But the British believed in "Continued might until they ultimately submit to our aggression and accept our laws and our authority makes right."

With all that being the case, and with the understanding that the British Empire definitely were the bad guys for centuries, you can see why people like the Zulu would celebrate a moment in their history where they succeeded against the bastards. I use the term "bastard" as in "Those guys are right dirty bastards." But in The Boomer Bible's "The Book of Others," it's used as in "those poor bastards who constantly got it in the neck by the Chosen Nations." Here's an excerpt from The Boomer Bible, one of my favorite books:

"The black Africans never had a chance.
2 The Watusi and the Zulus and the thousands of tribes who lived in the jungles and the savanna didn't want to rule the world,
3 Or build monuments of stone,
4 Or giant cities,
5 Or anything else.
6 They wanted to be left alone,
7 To live their own way,
8 Which didn't have anything to do with being Christian,
9 Or earning plantation wages,
10 Or being enslaved on some plantation on a different continent,
11 But the Chosen Nations came to Africa anyway,
12 And brought all their great civilized gifts,
13 Including Christianity,
14 And whips and chains,
15 And terrible weapons,
16 And slave ships,
17 And colonial governments,
18 And armies,
19 And wars,
20 And lies,
21 And more white people than you can shake a pointed stick at.
22 Poor bastards."