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117:, and sent to get Livingstone to safety. These slaves had been liberated and added to his party, but had shown violent conduct against local people contrary to his instructions, and he feared they might have been involved in starting the massacre. His diary notes "Dugumbe's men murdering Kimburu and another for slaves" and implied that the slave Manilla played a leading part, but looking back at the events, he says Dugumbe's people bore responsibility and started it to make an example of Manilla. In the diary he described his sending his men with protection of a flag to assist Manilla's brother, in his journal version it was to assist villagers. The edited version published posthumously in Livingstone's 22: 96:
On 15 July 1871, Livingstone witnessed around 400 to 500 Africans being massacred by Arab slavers at the Nyangwe market on the banks of the Lualaba, while he was watching next to the leading Arab trader Dugumbe who had given him assistance. As he recorded in his field diary, the attack was an act of
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in 1874 left out the context of Livingstone's earlier comments about Kirk and bad behaviour of the hired Banyan men, and omitted the villagers' earlier violent resistance to Arab slavers, thus portraying the villagers as passive victims. The section on the massacre itself had only minor grammatical
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retaliation for actions of Manilla, a head slave who had sacked villages of Mohombo people at the instigation of the Wagenya chieftain Kimburu. The Arabs attacked Kimburu's people as well as anyone they found to be present at the market.
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who scanned Livingstone's diary suggest that in putting his fragmentary notes about the massacre into the narrative of his journal, he left out his concerns about some of his followers, slaves owned by
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When Livingstone visited Nyangwe, it was the last known town for people coming from the east, and Livingstone thought that the Lualaba was the upper part of the
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was the first European to visit Nyangwe in 1871. According to his notes, the Swahili–Arabs had driven away the original inhabitants of the area, the
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followed the river downstream from Nyangwe with support of the local ruler, Tippu Tip, and as he arrived in
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The town was founded as an Arab trading depot around 1860. It subsequently became a part of the
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Arab slavers shooting at women at the market of Nyangwe during the massacre witnessed by
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hub for trade goods like ivory, gold, iron and slaves, remaining one of the main
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Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
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Index


David Livingstone
Lualaba River
Maniema
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kasongo
Swahili
Arab
slave trading
Congo Arab war
Sultanate of Utetera
Tippu Tip
Sultanate of Zanzibar
David Livingstone
Wagenya
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Banyan merchants
John Kirk
Zanzibar
Nile
Henry Morton Stanley
Boma
Congo River
Verney Lovett Cameron
Hermann Wissmann
Cannibalism in Africa § Congo Basin
Stanley, Henry Morton


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