Sobhuza II - Ngwenyama and King of Swaziland - The Story of an Hereditary Ruler and his Country

King Sobhuza II, born in 1899 and installed as Ngwenyama (Lion) of the Swazi in 1921, is the longest-reigning living African monarch. In 1968 he was internationally recognised as head of state of the independent kingdom of Swaziland, and it is largely due to him that his country, caught in the political crossfire between the reactionary apartheid regime of South Africa and the new Marxist socialist republic of Mozambique, remains, however precariously, a sovereign democratic state. This biography gives a unique historical picture of a modern African ruler whose reign spans the whole course of change from colonial times to independence and after...