This article seeks to re-examine the contemporary evidence about the early history of the
Maravi chieftaincies of northern Zambesia. It challenges the view that the Maravi were long …

The Portuguese appear to have been the first European visitors to encounter East Africa,
with the arrival of a lone traveller, Pero da Covilham, in c. 1491. Covilham left no account of …

This article is a partial answer to MDD Newitt, who proposed that settled Maravi states were
established only as a result of the rise of Muzura in the first half of the seventeenth century …

The martyrdom of the Jesuit father Gonçalo da Silveira is considered both in early
Portuguese documentation and in modern scholarship as a very significant event which had …

The external trade of the Zimbabwe culture, whose main occupation at Great Zimbabwe
dates from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, was linked to world demand, especially from …

The present article contributes to understanding of the Zimbabwe political institution of the
southern portion of the Zambesi Valley based on the conceptualization of its population …

In recent years, southern African archaeological and historical studies have been
experiencing a fruitful process of re-engagement, following decades in which the two …

One of the main challenges of recent historical scholarship of precolonial political entities in
sub-Saharan Africa is to understand them according to the perception by the people who …

The sedimentation of the Portuguese presence along the Zambezi until the Zumbo since the
XVIth century, had constitute a unmistakable sign in the colonial frontier's outline made by …

Muzura, though a key figure in seventeenth century Maravi politics and though the best
documented Maravi ruler of that time, has remained the least known, due to the fact that so …