The story of Shaka's memory of his childhood is not unique, except for how his it is filtered through his specific perceptual prism, and his telling of it.
The probability is that it is not markedly different the childhoods of thousands of other Jamaicans who grew up in the land of 'wood and water.'
Like that of Shaka, their childhoods will have been affected by all the emotions experienced by and known to all humans.
Pain, joy, excitement, sorrow, remorse, loss, happiness, plenty, want, light and dark periods will have visited all.
The difference might be in the amount of, the intensity and duration of the emotions they and Shaka will have experienced.
And probably what they have learnt from them and how they have benefited and diminished by each or all of these basic emotions and common experiences.
Throughout the 186 year period since the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, which set in motion the process of freeing his ancestors from slavery.
Shaka's forebears were indeed brought from Africa to the famous, though, for the native Taino people who were the island's previous inhabitants, and the enslaved African who replaced them, infamous Island of Xaymaca.
To be continued!
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