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The Zambezi - A History (Hardcover)
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The Zambezi - A History (Hardcover)
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The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the
continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and
commerce. In this book, historian Malyn Newitt quotes rarely used
Portuguese sources that throw vivid light on the culture of the
river peoples and their relations with the Portuguese creole
society of the prazos. Hitherto unused manuscript material
illustrates Portuguese and British colonial rule over the people of
the long-lived Lunda kingdoms, and the Lozi of the Barotse
Floodplain. The Zambezi became a war zone during the 'Scramble for
Africa', the struggle for independence and the civil wars that
followed the departure of colonial powers. Recent history has also
seen the river's wild nature tamed by the introduction of steamers
and the building of bridges and dams. These developments have
changed the character of the waterway, and impacted--often
drastically--the ecological systems of the valley and those settled
along its course. 'The Zambezi' traces the history of the
communities that have lived along this great river; their
relationship with the states formed on the high veldt; and the ways
they have adapted to the vagaries of the Zambezi itself, with its
annual floods, turbulent rapids and dramatic gorges.
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