Lozi people, or Barotse, are a southern African Bantu speaking 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 in western Zambia, inhabiting the region of Barotseland.
Barotseland is a Kingdom between Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Angola. It is the homeland of the Lozi people or Barotse, or Malozi, who are a unified group of over 20 individual formerly diverse tribes related through kinship, whose original branch are the Luyi (Maluyi), and also assimilated Southern Sotho tribe of South Africa known as the Makololo.
Lewanika (1842–1916) was the Lozi Litunga (King) of Barotseland from 1878 to 1916 . A detailed, although biased, description of King 'Lubossi' can be found in the Portuguese explorer Alexandre de Serpa Pinto's 1878–1879 travel narrative Como eu atravessei a África.
Liuwa Plain National Park is an 3,369-square-kilometre (1,301 sq mi) national park in Zambia's Western Province. "Liuwa" means "plain" in the local Lozi language, and the plains originally served as a hunting ground for Lubosi Lewanika, the Litunga of the Lozi people. The area was designated as a protected area by Lubosi Lewanika in the early 1880s, and as a national park in 1972, when Zambia's government took over management. The nonprofit conservation organization African Parks has managed Liuwa in partnership with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife and the Barotse Royal Establishment since 2003.
François Coillard was a French missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in southern Africa.
The Litunga of Barotseland is the king or paramount chief of the Lozi 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 Barotse Floodplain also known as the Bulozi Plain, Lyondo or the Zambezi Floodplain is one of Africa's great wetlands, on the Zambezi River in the Western Province of Zambia. It is a designated Ramsar site, regarded as being of high conservation value.
Mbololo 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.
Sipopa Lutangu was the leader of the Lozi revolution and later a Litunga (king) of the Lozi people. He ruled from 1864 to 1876.
Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa LitungaNgalama was a High Chief of Lozi people in Barotseland Zambia, Africa.
Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa LitungaYeta I was a High Chief of the Lozi people in Barotseland, Africa.
Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa LitungaInyambo was a Great African Chief of the Lozi people in Barotseland, Zambia, one of the first kings of the Lozi, and likely a mythical ruler or demigod.
Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa LitungaMwanasolundwi Muyunda Mumbo wa Mulonga was a mythical ruler, High chief of the Lozi people in Zambia, Africa.
Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa LitungaYeta II Nalute was an African High Chief, king of the Lozi people and Barotseland in Zambia.
Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa LitungaYubya I was a High Chief or King of Barotseland in Zambia, Africa, one of the sacred Lozi chiefs.
Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa LitungaSelumelume Muimui was a Chief of Barotseland in Africa.
Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa LitungaMubukwanu was a High Chief of the Lozi people, King of Barotseland in Africa. He quarrelled with his brother Silumelume.
Mwanawina II was a King or Chief of the Lozi people in Zambia, Africa, a member of the third dynasty of Litungas. His full title was Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa Litunga.
Yeta III was a King of Barotseland, one of the greatest High Chiefs of the Lozi people in Zambia.