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Barotseland (Lozi: Mubuso Bulozi) is a region between Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe including half of north-western province, southern province, and parts of Lusaka, Central, and Copperbelt provinces of Zambia and the whole of Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga Province.
This Order amalgamated what was North-Western Rhodesia with Barotseland and established over the whole territory a protectorate named Barotziland–North-Western Rhodesia. [2] [12] Protectorate status was welcomed by King Lewanika. [13] Under the Order, a regime for the Company's governance of the new protectorate was established.
Lozi tradition states that they have always inhabited Barotseland. In about 1830, an army that originated in the Sotho-speaking Bafokeng region of South Africa, known as the Makololo, led by a warrior called Sebetwane, invaded Barotseland and conquered the Lozi. They ruled until 1864, when the Sotho clique was overthrown following a Lozi revolt.
The green area is Barotseland. North-Western Rhodesia , in south central Africa , was a territory administered from 1891 until 1899 under charter by the British South Africa Company . In 1890 the British South Africa Company signed a treaty with King Lewanika of the Barotse , one of the most powerful traditional rulers in the territory.
The area of what became Northern Rhodesia, including Barotseland and land as far as Nyasaland to the east and to Katanga and Lake Tanganyika to the north, was placed under BSAC administration by an Order-in-Council of 9 May 1891, but no BSAC Administrator was sent to Barotseland until 1895, and the first Administrator, Forbes, who remained ...
By 1845, Sebetwane had conquered Barotseland and became king. He died in 1851 shortly after meeting David Livingstone, and was succeeded, first, by his daughter Mamochisane, who soon abdicated in favour of her younger half-brother Sekeletu. [10] After about 20 years, the Makololo dynasty of Sebetwane in Barotseland came to an end in 1864. [11]
Barotseland (Lozi: Mubuso Bulozi), a region of south-central Africa, including most of Zambia and parts of neighboring countries; Bulozi Plain, or Barotse Floodplain, a floodplain of the Zambezi in Zambia, associated with the Lozi people and language
It was one of what were colloquially referred to as the three Rhodesian protectorates, [8] the other two being Southern Rhodesia and Barotseland-North-Western Rhodesia. It was amalgamated with Barotseland-North-Western Rhodesia, another territory administered by the British South Africa Company, to form Northern Rhodesia in 1911. [9]