{{one source, date=April 2025 Mlozi bin Kazbadema or only Mlozi (died 1895) was an African slave trader.Stuart-Mogg, D., Shepperson, G. (2024). Mlozi of Central Africa: Trader, Slaver and Self-Styled Sultan.The End of the Slaver. Malawi: Luviri Press. He established a significant slave trade empire in Malawi, which he declared to be a Sultanate, and which became a transit area for the export of slaves from the African interior to the

Swahili coast The Swahili coast () is a coastal area of East Africa, bordered by the Indian Ocean and inhabited by the Swahili people. It includes Sofala (located in Mozambique); Mombasa, Gede, Kenya, Gede, Pate Island, Lamu, and Malindi (in Kenya); and Dar es ...

of East Africa and to the Arab world via the Indian Ocean slave trade. He was a central figure of the

Karonga War The name Karonga War is given to a number of armed clashes that took place between mid-1887 and mid-1889 near Karonga at the northern end of Lake Malawi in what is now Malawi between a Scottish trading concern called the African Lakes Company Lim ...

against the British, and was for a long time associated with the East African slave trade.

Biography

Mlozi was a Swahili Arab slave trader from the Swahili coast. In 1879, he and his colleagues established a trade base in the tribal area of Ngonde in the Luangwa Valley by Karonga. It became a major transit area for the transport of slaves from Central Africa to the Lake Malawi, and then to Swahili coast, where they supplied the Indian Ocean slave trade with slaves. Mlozi declared himself the ruling Sultan of the territory he controlled. Mlozi initially collaborated with the Ngonde people, but eventually they became involved in a conflict. Ngonde made an alliance treaty with the British, who attempted to gain influence in the area in the 1880s. This resulted in warfare between Mlozi and Ngonde and thereby also between Mlozi and the British. Mlozi was executed by the British in 1895.

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