Almost entirely unrelated to the video, because that’s probably just racist, but Shaka sits at an interesting intersection for me. Because he is one of the few figures of the colonised who gets to be the troubled military genius. Sure he also gets hit by the racist caricature beam a lot, but unlike a lot of other figures he gets respect for his military innovations whole also delving into the person in a way you don’t typically see.
I-m not saying he fully gets the respect of an Alexander the Great, but he isn’t usually portrayed as just some warlord or ignorant barbarian or (noble) savage crushed underfoot.
The only thing I can think of is that he was a credible threat at the end of imperial expansion and a time where the noble savage was a heavy literary theme, but it is fully groundless speculation.
In Soviet Communist North Korchina they hit you with the amnesia beam just so they can tell you about malfoid over and over again.