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LEWANIKA (c. i86o– )
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See also:LEWANIKA (c. i86o– ) , See also:paramount See also:chief of the See also:Barotse and subject tribes occupying the greater See also:part of the upper See also:Zambezi See also:basin, was the twenty-second of a See also:long See also:line of rulers, whose founder invaded the Barotse valley about the beginning of the 17th See also:century, and according to tradition was the son of a woman named Buya Mamboa by a See also:god. The See also:graves of successive ruling chiefs are to this See also:day respected and See also:objects of See also:pilgrimage for purposes of ancestor See also:worship. Lewanika was See also:born on the upper Kabompo in troublous times, where his See also:father—Letia, a son of a former ruler—lived in See also:exile during the See also:interregnum of a See also:foreign See also:dynasty (Makololo), which remained in See also:possession from about 1830 to 1865, when the Makololo were practically exterminated in a See also:night by a well-organized revolt. Once more masters of their own See also:country, the Barotse invited Sepopa, an See also:uncle of Lewanika, to See also:rule over them. Eleven years of brutality and See also:licence resulted in the See also:tyrant's See also:expulsion and subsequent assassination, his See also:place being taken by Ngwana-Wina, a See also:nephew. Within a See also:year abuse of See also:power brought about this chief's downfall (1877), and he was succeeded by Lobosi, who assumed the name of Lewanika in 1885. The See also:early years of his reign were also stained by many acts of See also:blood, -u1>lil in 1884 the See also:torture and See also:murder of his own See also:brother led to open See also:rebellion, and it was only through extreme presence of mind that the chief escaped with his See also:life into exile. His See also:cousin, Akufuna or Tatela, was then proclaimed chief. It was during his brief reign that See also:Francois Coillard, the eminent missionary, arrived at Lialui, the See also:capital. The following year Lewanika, having collected his partisans, deposed the usurper and re-established his power. Ruthless revenge not unmixed with treachery characterized his return to power, but gradually the strong See also:personality of the high-minded Francois Coillard so far influenced him for See also:good that from about 1887 onward he ruled tolerantly and showed a consistent See also:desire to better the See also:condition of his See also:people. In 1890 Lewanika, who two years previously had proposed to place himself under the See also:protection of See also:Great See also:Britain, concluded a treaty with the See also:British See also:South See also:Africa See also:Company, acknowledging its supremacy and conceding to it certain See also:mineral rights. In 1897 Mr R. T. Coryndon took up his position at Lialui as British See also:agent, and the country to the See also:east of 25° E. was thrown open to settlers, that to the See also:west being reserved to the Barotse chief. In 1905 the See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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