Mainga: Bulozi under the Luyana Kings

Political Evolution and State Formation in Pre-Colonial Zambia

Mutumba Mainga

• Publisher: Gadsden Publishers
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9789982240529
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9789982241366
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

Bulozi under the Luyana Kings is a study of the Lozi Kingdom in Western Zambia in the pre-colonial period. The study traces the origins of the Luyana and the Lozi people; the founding of the Luyana Central Kingship and the invasion by the Makololo in the mid-nineteenth century; and ends with the study of the Lozi response to European intrusion at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bulozi under the Luyana Kings was first published in 1973 by Longman, London. After wide consultations at home and abroad, the book is now republished in its original form.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Maps
• Plates
• Preface to 1973 edition
• Preface to 2010 edition
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Bulozi
• 1. Migration and settlement
• 2. The founding of the Lozi State and the emergence of a Luyana central kingship
• 3. Colonisation of the Flood Plain and beyond
• 4. The Makololo and the fall of the Lozi kingdom in the mid-nineteenth century
• 5. The decline of the Makololo and the Lozi restoration
• 6. The restored Lozi kingdom 1864-85
• 7. Lewanika and the survival of the monarchy, 1885 - 1900
• 8. The extent of Lozi influence
• 9. The Lozi response to European intrusion
• Epilogue
• Appendix
• Sources and field research method
• List of main oral sources: informants and Select Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover