Petro Kilekwa

	Petro Kilekwa Petro Kilekwa (also Chilekwa, late 1860s/early 1870s – 1967) was an African man who, after having been enslaved, became a teacher and later an Anglican priest. His autobiography, published in 1937, was titled ''Slave Boy to Priest: The Autobiography of Padre Petro Kilekwa''. Biography Kilekwa was born in Zambia, in a Bissa village, in the Mbisa tribe, near Lake Bangweulu. He was born "Chilekwa"; ''Ki-'', he says in his autobiography, "is a Swahili prefix". He was enslaved in the 1870s as a boy in what he called "the Maviti wars" (the term may point to "any brigand rather than to a specific ethnic group"). His mother was unable to pay his ransom — eight yards of calico cloth—and he was taken to the coast, headed for the Persian Gulf. However, the ship of his enslavers was stopped by the Royal Navy; HMS ''Osprey'' took them to Muscat. The group spent a month or so there, but then Kilekwa and another boy, Mambwala, were volunteered to serve on the ''Osprey'' and become s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Petro Kilekwa And Pupils Petro is a masculine given name, a surname and an Ancient Roman cognomen. It may refer to: Given name * Petro Balabuyev (1931-2007), Ukrainian airplane designer, engineer and professor, lead designer of many Antonov airplanes * Petro Doroshenko (1627–1698), Cossack political and military leader, Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1665–1672) and a Russian ''voyevoda'' (governor) * Petro Drevchenko (1863-1934), Ukrainian bandurist * Petro Dyachenko (1895-1965), Ukrainian military commander * Petro Dyminskyi (born 1954), Ukrainian politician, businessman and former footballer * Petro Franko (1890-1941), Ukrainian educator and author * Petro Georgiou (born 1947), Australian politician * Petro Goga, Chairman of the Constituent Assembly of Albania in 1924 * Petro Kalnyshevsky (1691?–1803), last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host (in what is now Ukraine) * Petro Kharchenko (born 1983), Ukrainian former pair ice skater * Petro Kasui Kibe (1587–1639), Japanese Christian missionary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	HMS Bacchante (1876) HMS ''Bacchante'' was a ironclad screw-propelled corvette of the Royal Navy. She is particularly famous for being the ship on which the Princes George and Albert served as midshipmen. ''Bacchante'' was built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 19 October 1876, the second ship of the three ship ''Bacchante'' class. She was armed with fourteen muzzle-loading rifle guns and two 64-pounder torpedo carriages, and rated at 4070 tons. Royal crew The two oldest sons of the Prince of Wales had entered the navy in 1877, and by 1879 it had been decided by the Royal Family and the Government that the two should undertake a cruise. They were assigned to ''Bacchante'', which was then part of a squadron intended to patrol the sea lanes of the British Empire. Queen Victoria was concerned that the ''Bacchante'' might sink, drowning her grandchildren. Confident in their ship, the Admiralty sent ''Bacchante'' through a gale to prove she was sturdy enough to weather storms. The Princes, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Zambian Anglicans Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most central point. Its neighbours are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the northeast, Malawi to the east, Mozambique to the southeast, Zimbabwe and Botswana to the south, Namibia to the southwest, and Angola to the west. The capital city of Zambia is Lusaka, located in the south-central part of Zambia. The nation's population of around 19.5 million is concentrated mainly around Lusaka in the south and the Copperbelt Province to the north, the core economic hubs of the country. Originally inhabited by Khoisan peoples, the region was affected by the Bantu expansion of the thirteenth century. Following the arrival of European exploration of Africa, European explorers in the eighteenth century, the British colonised the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]