Cetywayo and His White Neighbours

Cetywayo and His White Neighbours is H. Rider Haggard's nonfiction account of southern African politics, especially the Zulu kingdom, British policy, and the fate of King Cetshwayo after the Anglo-Zulu conflict. Written from close colonial experience, the book combines political argument, observation, and historical narrative around power, land, war, and imperial responsibility.

It is valuable less as detached scholarship than as a revealing document of its moment. Haggard writes with sympathy in places and with the limitations of his colonial world in others, making the book useful for reading empire through contemporary voices. Readers interested in Victorian imperial history, Zululand, South African politics, and the nonfiction background behind Haggard's adventure fiction will find Cetywayo and His White Neighbours important.