Mwanawina II

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Mwanawina II
' Litunga'
Seven Years in South Africa, page 357, Wana Wena, the new king of the Marutse.jpg
Mwanawina II in the book Seven Years in South Africa (1881)
ConsortUnknown
Issue Mwangala
FatherSibeso
MotherOne princess

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.

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Biography

Family

Mwanawina was a son of Prince Sibeso, who was a son of the King Mulambwa Santulu. Sibeso was killed in 1863.[ citation needed ]

Siblings of Mwanawina were Chief Musiwa and one more chief (name unknown).

He became a king after his uncles Silumelume and Mubukwanu. [1] [2] [3]

Reign

Mwanawina was proclaimed king at Katongo. His daughter was named Mwangala, but her mother is not known. [4]

Mwanawina appointed Mwangala when she was one year old to the throne in the south.

He was deposed and expelled by his nobles and killed (poisoned or starved to death) on an island near Ng'ambwe in 1879. [5]

Sources

  1. Kingdoms of the savanna by Jan Vansina
  2. A history of Africa in the 19th century by Esther I. Njiro
  3. The Elites of Barotseland, 1878-1969 by Gerald L. Caplan
  4. On the Threshold of Central Africa: A Record of Twenty Years' Pioneering among the Barotsi by François Coillard and Catharine Winkworth Mackintosh
  5. Emil Holub's Travels North of the Zambezi, 1885-6 by Emil Holub

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