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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 451 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAKALAKA , a See also:

general designation used by the See also:Bechuana, See also:Matabele and kindred peoples, for conquered or slave tribes. Thus many of the tribes subjugated by the Makololo See also:chief, Sebituane, about 183o were called Makalaka (see See also:David Living-See also:stone's Missionary Travels and Researches in See also:South See also:Africa, See also:London, 1857). By See also:early writers on south-central Africa certain of the inhabitants of Barotseland were styled Makalaka; the name is more frequently used to designate the Makalanga, one of the tribes now classed as Mashonas (q.v.), who were brought into subjection by the Matabele.

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