When something or someone gains fame or infamy, there comes a time where that something or someone wants to parody or reject it's fame & become a copy or a counter-personality of it's former self forgetting that the present is not the past. Essentially, becoming a fake or anti-personality of a former self. Your obsession in 2005 was not exactly the same thing in 2017 & it's not always because you grew to resent whatever you no longer like, you just grew out of it. That's the problem with fame, it sees an image of the past as the present & it forces people to be frauds.
I've heard some people quoting from King Shaka's praises claiming that he was "like the sun" therefore light-skinned. But I'd like to ask how comparisons with the sun equate with being light-skinned? If anything, if King Shaka was light-skinned, they'd compare him to something terrestrial like the colour of a cow hide, wood or other object because very few extraterrestrial objects have the colour of any human skin. Even white people are called "ondlebe zikhanya ilanga" ('those who have translucent ears") & not "abakhanya okwelanga" ("those who shine like the sun"). King Shaka's mother was from Elangeni & there is the Langa clan in KZN, all of them are black with many being exceptionally dark-skinned so I don't think the comparisons comparing King Shaka with the sun have anything to do with his complexion. Even the whites who first saw him & drew him wrote that he was dark & fairly tall. I also don...
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