Mbololo (or Mpololo) was a
Litunga
The Litunga of Barotseland (Zambia, in Zambia) is the King of the Barotse 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 ...
(chief) of
Makololo tribe, a successor of
Liswaniso. He ruled from 1863 to 1864. He was the last king of the Makololo dynasty.
Biography
Family
Mbololo was a brother of the King
Sebetwane and uncle of the Queen
Mamochisane
Mamochisane ( fl. 1851) was a Makololo Queen who ruled over many people, but especially the Lozi in Barotseland, today's Western Zambia, in 1851. She was later a wife of King Sipopa Lutangu.
Biography
Mamochisane was a daughter of the King S ...
and King
Sekeletu.
Reign
He was a successor of the king Liswaniso and he seized the kingship in 1863. He was even more unpopular then Sekeletu.
He was very cruel and was overthrown by a force led by a
Lozi contingent from the north in August 1864. After his death general Njekwa destroyed Makololo.
View of Coillard
The French
missionary
A missionary is a member of a Religious denomination, religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Thoma ...
François Coillard
François Coillard (17 July 1834 in Asnières-les-Bourges, Cher, France – 27 May 1904 in Lealui, Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia) was a French missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in southern Africa.
Life
Coillard wa ...
, who had read much of
David Livingstone
David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livings ...
’s work noted:
Sources
Makololo interregnum and the legacy of David Livingstone(PDF)
*''Dictionary of African historical biography'' by Mark R. Lipschutz and R. Kent Rasmussen
*''Trade and Travel in Early Barotseland'' by George Westbeech, Edward C. Tabler, Norman Magnus MacLeod
*''Iron Age Cultures in Zambia: Dambwa, Ingombe Ilede, and the Tonga'' by Brian M. Fagan, D. W. Phillipson, and S. G. H. Daniels
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Litungas
19th-century monarchs in Africa