Showing posts with label ngoniland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ngoniland. Show all posts

Monday, January 17, 2011

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Video of the Mzimba Centenary Celebrations Ceremony: From Kingdom to Protectorate and Beyond

  • Monday, January 17, 2011
  • Samuel Albert
  • Below is a video of the Mzimba Centenary celebrations: From Kingdom to Protectorate and Beyond ceremony held at the foot of Hora Mountain in 2008. Mzimba district of Malawi,  formerly known as Ngoniland was initially left out of the British Protectorate until 1904 when with the help of Scottish missionaries, the British incorporated Ngoniland into the British Protectorate of Nyasaland.

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    Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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    Northern Ngoniland - Imperial Possibilities of Missions

  • Tuesday, December 14, 2010
  • Samuel Albert
  • Extract from Missionary Idea in Life and Religion, 1926

    ....Perhaps the imperial possibilities of missions have never been better illustrated than in the story of Laws of Livingstonia of the annexation of Ngoniland. It was won for the British Empire, neither by the soldier, nor by the administrator, nor by the explorer, but by the missionary. Sir Alfred Sharpe, Commissioner of Nyasaland, put absolute confidence in the judgment of Doctor Laws about the precise moment when the country was ripe for annexation. On receipt of a letter from Doctor Laws, the commissioner "did a thing surely unparalleled in the story of British colonization. He went up into the wilds of Ngoniland to annex the country, unattended by the military, and taking only his wife with him." On September 2, 1904, the day fixed for the great palaver with the native chiefs, "the Ngoni gathered in their thousands, chiefs and indunas and fighting men, with spears and shields, the proudest and most warlike people in Central Africa, and the commissioner walked into their midst to take away their independence, with all the implication which that involved the surrender of their old care-free life, the submission to outside authority, the imposition of taxation and he was alone. The few soldiers he had brought with him as a matter of form mingled, unarmed, with the spectators."

    A mission teacher acted as an interpreter; and after a long palaver, with many explanations asked and patiently and tactfully given, without the firing of a single shot and with the good will of the "wild Ngoni," by the setting of the sun Ngoniland had been added to the British Empire. The commissioner gratefully acknowledged his great indebtedness to Doctor Laws and the other missionaries.
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    Tuesday, June 22, 2010

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    Pictures and Artist Impressions of Life among the Ngoni and other Ngunis in the early 19th Century

  • Tuesday, June 22, 2010
  • Samuel Albert
  • The following are pictures and artist impressions of life among the Ngoni and fellow Nguni (i.e. the Zulus, Swazis, Xhosa, Ndebeles and ngoni) that I have collected and continue to collect. This will help the study of the similarities and differences between us the Ngoni and our brothers and sisters down south.
    Artist Impression of the headrings (isicoco) of the Nguni family based on Keith Montagu explorations in 1880s. Isicoco used to be a badge for married Nguni men.
    From Some of the Earliest Pictures Of The Ngoni
    Zulu men in the 1880s mending the isicoco (headring made with wax) of his fellow. Isicoco was a badge for a matured, married man.
    From Zulu Photos

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