Shaka thus spent his earliest years at his father's esiKlebeni homestead near present Babanango, in the hallowed locality known as the EmaKhosini or Burial-place of the Kings, where Senzangakhona's forebears, the descendants of Zulu (Nkosinkulu), had been chiefs for generations. Despite his attempts to deny paternity, Senzangakhona eventually installed Nandi as his third wife.
Shaka's name is said to stem from Senzangakhona's claim that Nandi was not pregnant but was suffering from an intestinal condition caused by the iShaka beetle. A more credible account is that the relationship between Nandi and Senzangakhona was illicit, and that Shaka was born in Langeni territory at the Nguga homestead of Nandi's uncle. It is claimed that Shaka was born into Senzangakhona's household but that the couple were not yet married according to traditional custom. Information about Shaka's early years is gleaned entirely from oral sources. His mother was Nandi, the daughter of a Langeni chief.
Shaka was a son of Senzangakhona, ruler of an insignificant small chiefdom, the Zulu. During his brief reign more than a hundred chiefdoms were brought together in a Zulu kingdom which survived not only the death of its founder but later military defeat and calculated attempts to break it up. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean, a region populated by many independent Nguni chiefdoms. Sigidi kaSenzangakhona commonly knows as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror.
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