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Mbololo (king)
Mbololo (or Mpololo) was a Litunga (chief) of Makololo tribe, a successor of Liswaniso. He ruled from 1863 to 1864. He was the last king of the Makololo dynasty. Biography Family Mbololo was a brother of the King Sebetwane and uncle of the Queen Mamochisane and King Sekeletu. Reign He was a successor of the king Liswaniso and he seized the kingship in 1863. He was even more unpopular then Sekeletu. He was very cruel and was overthrown by a force led by a Lozi contingent from the north in August 1864. After his death general Njekwa destroyed Makololo. View of Coillard The French missionary François Coillard, who had read much of David Livingstone David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of t ...’s work noted: SourcesMakololo interregnum and the legacy of David Livingstone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Litunga
The Litunga of Barotseland (now in Zambia) is the king of the Barotse people. The ''Litunga'' resides near the Zambezi River and the town of Mongu, at Lealui on the floodplain in the dry season, and on higher ground at Limulunga on the edge of the floodplain in the wet season. The ''Litunga'' moves between these locations in what is known as the Kuomboka ceremony. The current ''Litunga'' is Lubosi II. List of Litungas Rulers (title ''Mbumu wa Litunga'') *Nyambe (god) * Mwanasolundwi Muyunda Mumbo wa Mulonga (demigod) *Inyambo *Yeta I *Ngalama *Yeta II Nalute *Ngombala *Yubya *Mwanawina I *Mwananyanda Liwale *Mulambwa Santulu (1780 – 1830) *Silumelume (1830) – Son of Mulambwa *Mubukwanu (1830 - 1838) – Son of Mulambwa *Imasiku (1838) – Son of Mubukwanu Makololo chiefs (title ''Morêna'') *Sebetwane (1838 - 1851) *Mamochisane (female) (1851) – Daughter of Sebetwane *Sekeletu (1851 - 1863) – Son of Sebetwane and Setlutlu * Mambili (1863) * Liswaniso (in rebellion) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makololo Tribe
The Kololo or Makololo are a subgroup of the Sotho-Tswana people native to Southern Africa. In the early 19th century, they were displaced by the Zulu, migrating north to Barotseland, Zambia. They conquered the territory of the Luyana people and imposed their own language. The combination of Luyana and Kololo languages gave rise to the current Lozi language spoken by the Lozi people, descendants of the Luyana and nearby tribes. In 1864, the Kololo kingdom was overthrown and some chiefs moved to Chikwawa District, Malawi, with David Livingstone. Name The Kololo are also known as Makololo. When referring to Kololo people in plural, their endonym is Bakololo, which includes the Bantu clitic ''ba-''. The Kololo appear to be named after Kololo, the wife of their first chief, Sebitwane. Another theory is that it is a Luyana word meaning "bald" referring to their conqueror's hairstyles. History Origins The Kololo are said to have originated in the North Orange Free State region (cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebetwane
Sebetwane (between about 1790 and 1800 – July 7, 1851) was chief of the Patsa branch of the Bafokeng clan. He established the large and powerful Makololo nation in what is now southwestern Zambia after an arduous migration of over 1200 kilometres from the clan's ancestral lands, near modern day Biddulphsberg, in the Free State province of South Africa. Names King's names also can be written as Sebitwane or Sibutuane. In isizulu he is called sibidwane. Biography In the early 1820s Sebetwane was the Chief of a small Sotho group known as the Bafokeng-ba-ha-Patsa. Facing constant attacks and losing all their cattle during the early years of the Mfecane, Sebetwane urged his people to leave their homeland: "My masters, you see that the world is collapsing. We shall be eaten up one by one. Our fathers taught us peace means prosperity, but today there is no peace, no prosperity! Let us march!" In 1823 they moved north near what is now the southern borders of Botswana, attac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamochisane
Mamochisane ( fl. 1851) was a Makololo Queen who ruled over many people, but especially the Lozi in Barotseland, today's Western Zambia, in 1851. She was later a wife of King Sipopa Lutangu. Biography Mamochisane was a daughter of the King Sebetwane, half-sister of Prince Sekeletu and sister or half-sister of Prince Mpepe. She was the niece of king Mbololo. She succeeded her father on his death in 1851, as he had intended long before his death, even if she had brothers. She maintained the friendship with the traveller David Livingstone, which had been initiated by her father, giving him permission to visit all her kingdom. When Livingstone returned in 1853 to the Makololo's capital, Linyati, he found out that only shortly after her father's death she had stepped down in favour of her brother Sekeletu, who became a new king. In Livingstone's account the reason was her desire to have a stable husband and a family that was firmly hers, while as a ruler she was forced to alternate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekeletu
Sekeletu (c. 1835–1863) was the Makololo King of Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863. Biography Sekeletu was a son of the King Sebetwane and Queen Setlutlu. He succeeded his half-sister Mamochisane, who had decided to step down from the throne. It was she who proclaimed him new ruler, against the ambitions of Sekeletu's half-brother Mpepe, who unsuccessfully tried to block him by insinuating that he was not the lawful son of Sebetwane, since Sekeletu's mother had been previously married to another chief. He appears to have been very young when he took power, as the explorer David Livingstone presumed on first meeting him in Linyati in 1853 that he was about 18 years old. Sekeletu's relations with the explorer appear to have been very good, as confirmed by the 27 Makololo that under their king's orders went with Livingstone with the goal of finding a road between Barotseland and the port of Luanda, capital of Portuguese West Africa. His rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Litunga
The Litunga of Barotseland (now in Zambia) is the king of the Barotse people. The ''Litunga'' resides near the Zambezi River and the town of Mongu, at Lealui on the floodplain in the dry season, and on higher ground at Limulunga on the edge of the floodplain in the wet season. The ''Litunga'' moves between these locations in what is known as the Kuomboka ceremony. The current ''Litunga'' is Lubosi II. List of Litungas Rulers (title ''Mbumu wa Litunga'') *Nyambe (god) * Mwanasolundwi Muyunda Mumbo wa Mulonga (demigod) *Inyambo *Yeta I *Ngalama *Yeta II Nalute *Ngombala *Yubya *Mwanawina I *Mwananyanda Liwale *Mulambwa Santulu (1780 – 1830) *Silumelume (1830) – Son of Mulambwa *Mubukwanu (1830 - 1838) – Son of Mulambwa *Imasiku (1838) – Son of Mubukwanu Makololo chiefs (title ''Morêna'') *Sebetwane (1838 - 1851) *Mamochisane (female) (1851) – Daughter of Sebetwane *Sekeletu (1851 - 1863) – Son of Sebetwane and Setlutlu * Mambili (1863) * Liswaniso (in rebellion) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lozi People
Lozi people, or Barotse, are a southern African ethnic group who speak Lozi or Silozi, a Sotho–Tswana language. The Lozi people consist of more than 46 different ethnic groups and are primarily situated between Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe including half of eastern and northern province of Zambia inhabiting the region of Barotseland. Lozi is also a nationality of the people of Barotseland, an amalgamation of several smaller ethnic groups and tribes. The Lozi people number approximately 5,575,000. Lozi are also found in Zambia, Namibia (Caprivi Strip), Angola, Botswana, Mozambique (50,000), and Zimbabwe (8,000). The Lozi are also known as the Malozi, Nyambe, Makololo, Barotose, Rotse, Rozi, Rutse, Baloyi, Balobedu or Tozvi. Name The word Lozi means 'plain' in the Makololo language, in reference to the Barotse Floodplain of the Zambezi on and around which most Lozi live. It may also be spelled Lotse or Rotse, the spelling Lozi having originated with German missionaries in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missionary
A missionary is a member of a Religious denomination, religious group which is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Thomas Hale 'On Being a Missionary' 2003, William Carey Library Pub, . In the Bible translations into Latin, Latin translation of the Bible, Jesus, Jesus Christ says the word when he sends the disciples into areas and commands them to preach the gospel in his name. The term is most commonly used in reference to Christian missions, but it can also be used in reference to any creed or ideology. The word ''mission'' originated in 1598 when Jesuits, the members of the Society of Jesus sent members abroad, derived from the Latin (nominative case, nom. ), meaning 'act of sending' or , meaning 'to send'. By religion Buddhist missions The first Buddhist missionaries were called "Dharma Bhanaks", and some see a missionary charge in the symbolis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Coillard
François Coillard (17 July 1834 in Asnières-les-Bourges, Cher, France – 27 May 1904 in Lealui, Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia) was a French missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in southern Africa. Life Coillard was the youngest of the seven children of François Coillard and his wife Madeleine. Both parents were of Huguenot descent. In 1836, Coillard’s father died, leaving behind a nearly destitute widow. Coillard enrolled in the Protestant School at Asnières at the age of 15 and later attended Strasbourg University. He offered himself in 1854 to the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS or, in French, ''Société des Missions Evangéliques de Paris''). He trained under Eugène Casalis, a veteran southern African missionary, and in 1857 was ordained at the Oratoire in Paris. His first posting was to the independent kingdom of Basutoland (present-day Lesotho), where the PEMS had been established since 1833. When Coillard reached Cape T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Livingstone
David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. David was the husband of Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th Century missionary family, Moffat. He had a mythic status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion. Livingstone's fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile River was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab–Swahili slave trade. "The Nile sources", he told a friend, "are valuabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
