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Title:The History of Abdullah Ibn Suliman
Author:Roberts, Andrew D.ISNI
Year:1967
Periodical:African Social Research
Issue:4
Period:December
Pages:241-270
Language:English
Geographic term:Zambia
Subjects:Swahili
market vendors
history
History and Exploration
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Religion and Witchcraft
Abstract:Abdullah ibn Suliman, a Swahili trader active in north-eastern Zambia from 1867, later became leader of a colony of foreign traders in the Tabwa: chiefdom of Nsama. This colony's history, recorded in 1913 in the Kawambwa District Notebook, is reproduced, with explanatory introduction and notes. The text is clearly derived primarily from Swahili: informants in Itabwa and is as such accepted as one of the very few accounts left by coastal traders in the East African interior; and it describes in detail the relations between the foreign traders in Itabwa and the Tabwa, Bemba, and eastern Lunda of Kazembe. Many points can be compared with Tippu Tip's reminiscences, while Livingstone's journals confirm several passages. The text is also important as being, in this readily accessible, clearly annotated form, a comparative source of Tabwa, Bemba and Lunda history. References; genealogical scheme; annotated index of names and terms.
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