Mwanawina II

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Mwanawina II was a king or chief of the Lozi people in Zambia, Africa, a member of the third dynasty of . His full title was Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa Litunga.

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Biography

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Family Mwanawina was a son of Prince Sibeso, who was a son of the King Mulambwa Santulu. Sibeso was killed in 1863.

Siblings of Mwanawina were Chief Musiwa and one more chief (name unknown).

He became a king after his uncles Silumelume and Mubukwanu. Kingdoms of the savanna by Jan Vansina A history of Africa in the 19th century by Esther I. Njiro The Elites of Barotseland, 1878-1969 by Gerald L. Caplan

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Reign Mwanawina was proclaimed king at Katongo. His daughter was named Mwangala, but her mother is not known. On the Threshold of Central Africa: A Record of Twenty Years' Pioneering among the Barotsi by François Coillard and Catharine Winkworth Mackintosh

Mwanawina appointed Mwangala when she was one year old to the throne in the south.

He was deposed and expelled by his nobles and killed ( or starved to death) on an island near Ng'ambwe in 1879. Emil Holub's Travels North of the Zambezi, 1885-6 by Emil Holub

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Sources

• Makololo interregnum and the legacy of David Livingstone (PDF)

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