He spent his childhood and youth in exile, and while in his twenties he distinguished himself for six years as a  warrior in the service of Chief Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa.
He spent his childhood and youth in exile, and while in his twenties he distinguished himself for six years as a  warrior in the service of Chief Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa. When his father died in 1816 Dingiswayo sent him  to rule his own people, and he set in motion the far-reaching changes of the mfecane. After Dingiswayo's 1817  death his rule became increasingly autocratic, and upon his mother's death in 1828 he went completely insane  and was murdered and succeeded by his half-brother Dingaan. FTP name this man who reorganized his nation's  fighting force, the founder of the modern Zulu Nation.
He spent his childhood and youth in exile, and while in his twenties he distinguished himself for six years as a  warrior in the service of Chief Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa.
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