Macqueen, Ian2022-04-112022-04-112022Ian Macqueen (2022): Shaka Zulu in the Polish People’s Republic (PRL): exploring South African-Polish links in the late Cold War, Cold War History, DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2022.2027913. NYP.1468-2745 (print)1743-7962 (online)10.1080/14682745.2022.2027913https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/84873In the late 1980s, Poles tuned in with great enthusiasm to the miniseries Shaka Zulu, starring Henry Cele as the so-called Black Napoleon. The apartheid-era production was one instance of exchanges between the apartheid regime and the Polish People’s Republic. This counter-intuitive consonance – the screening of an apartheid cultural production in late-Communist Poland – is a fascinating case study that provides one important lens to understand the nature of the relationship between the two regimes, as well as insight into late-apartheid international relations in the last years of the Cold War.en©2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an electronic version of an article published in Cold War History, vol. , no. , pp. , 2022. doi : 10.1080/14682745.2022.2027913. Cold War History is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/fcwh20.South Africa (SA)PolandCultural studiesDe-colonisationPostprint Article