Polity Domain of Mirambo

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Mtyela Kasanda (1840-1884), better known as Mirambo, was a Nyamwezi warlord, from 1860 to 1884. He created the largest state by area in 19th-century east Africa, located in Tnazani.

Establishment

  • January 1861: Mtyela Kasanda, better known as Mirambo (which means "corpses"), was a Nyamwezi warlord, from 1860 to 1884. He created the largest state by area in 19th-century east Africa.

Chronology

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1. Events

  • January 1884: From 1883 Arab slave and ivory trader Rumaliza was the leader of the Swahili community at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika.

Disestablishment

  • January 1891: By 1st july 1890 Germany controlled all of Tanganyka (the continental part of modern-day Tanzania), Burundi and Rwanda as with the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty the treaty with the East Africa Protectorate controlled by Britain was fixed.

Selected Sources

  • Langer, W. L. (1951): The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890-1902, (1951) , Cambridge (USA), pp. 6-10