The kingdom of mwene mutapa was the aftermath of the decline of great zimbabwe in 1420. According to traditional accounts, the kingdom was founded by lukeni lua nimi about 90. Chansa kabwela, editor of the independent the postpost, was arrested last week after emailing pictures of a woman giving birth in the streets to policy makers and aid groups. Social security administration public data, the first name mwene was not present. Mwenemutapa has a few different translations on of them being lord of the plundered lands, and another being prince of the conquered land both meaning ruler of land. The hidden history behind the name mwene mutapa celebrating. A pdf creator and a pdf converter makes the conversion possible. This place is situated in kasaioriental, democratic republic of the congo, its geographical coordinates are 7 0 0 south, 23 27 0 east and its original name with diacritics is mweneditu.
He made his first appearance for vfb stuttgart ii on 20 april 20 in the 3. Their domain was often called the empire of the mwene matapa, or simply matapa or mutapa, and is associated with the. Mutapa is thought to be established around 1430, and was eventually taken over by the portuguese in 1760. The writer was telling him of empires stretching over hundreds of miles, from the. Monomotapa high civilization the kingdom of monomotapa popularly known as the mutapa empire or mwenemutapa in africa was a medieval kingdom that was located between river zambezi and limpopo in what is known today as the states of zambia, mozambique and south eastern zambia. A similar misrepresentation of the name mwene mutapa is its change to munhumutapa to suggest that the mutapas were not only kidnappers of children, but also enslavers of ablebodied adults for cheap. News of the south in my previous article entitled dont teach rubbish about mwenemutapa, i bemoaned not only the death of knowledge in zimbabwe about the. The civil war caused so much damage to the mutapan society it dissolved. O imperio do mwene mutapa, zimbabue linkedin slideshare. The gujarati banyans, according to the following account by h.
Thus a region which was once the centre of the indigenous mwene mutapa state and a key site of earlier portuguese mercantile and catholic missionary activity. Join facebook to connect with macombe hanga mwenemutapa and others you may know. Originally, it was probably a loose federation of small polities, but. Kongo, former kingdom in westcentral africa, located south of the congo river presentday angola and democratic republic of the congo. Trade in gold from the mutapa kingdom reached as far as india, persia, china, arabia, portugal and eventually other countries in europe and asia. The ruling class of the mutapa people had similar culture and customs as those of the great zimbabwe. The kingdoms of kongo and mwene mutapa firm agricultural base people began developing skills of. Mwenemutapa has a few different translations on of. The empire declines the decline of the mutapa occured around the year 1629. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise cambridge core to connect with your account. Although sometimes described as an empire, there is little evidence that the shona people of mutapa ever established such control over the region.
Mutapa aka matapa, mwenemutapa, and monomotapa was a southern african kingdom located in the north of modern zimbabwe along the zambezi river which flourished between the mid15th and mid17th century ce. University college of rhodesia and nyasaland, salisbury, rhodesia zimbabwe. Gatsi rusere munhumutapa 15891623 picture is part of the national stamp collection issued by the zimbabwe post office in conjunction with the zimbabwe national archives in 1985 to. The origins of the word shona celebrating being zimbabwean. Phillipp mwene born 29 january 1994 is a kenyanaustrian footballer who plays as a defender for 1. Mutapa empire 1430 to 1760 was an empire, in present day zimbabwe, extending to the mozambique coast. They point out ideas, inventions, art, food, customs, and more from this empire that are still part of our world today. Its stronghold was a fortified stone town known as great. Even so, european influences were changing the continent, and disrupting the old order of things. The chiefs or kings of the shona held the royal title mwene mutapa, meaning either lord of. As a leading global manufacturer of crushing, grinding and mining equipments, we offer advanced, reasonable solutions for any sizereduction requirements including, mutapa state economic organisation interms of mining, quarry, aggregate, and different kinds of minerals. Mwene we mutapa or more commonly and modern munhumutapa. The picture is from portuguese historical collection.
A similar toolbar is available as a volunteersupported local gadget at some wikis. The mutapa people produced and traded a variety of goods such as elephant tusks and gold and encouraged traders including the swahili and portuguese continue. Mutota is considered the founder of the rozvi dynasty of the mwene mutapa or monomotapa kingdom, one of the powerful states of precolonial africa. Nations and cultures in remote history can seem far removed from our world, but these connections demonstrate how our everyday lives have been shaped by the. Les portugais, femmes du mwene mutapa et du quiteve. Mutapa state economic organisation interms of mining. It is possible the name you are searching has less than five occurrences per year.
The first mwene was a warrior prince named nyatsimba mutota who discovered what was soon to be mutapa when he was looking for a new source of salt. This was a secondary state, resulting from the northward expansion of the great zimbabwe tradition. According to traditional accounts, the kingdom was founded by. The meaning of the name mutapa is the conquered lands. He then embarked on an expansionist policy that resulted in the creation of a vast empire the mwene mutapa or simply, mutapa, state, which stretched from the. The kingdom of monomotapa mutapa empire wilsondiop. The fumosa said manual barrett in i667q would declare war, exact tribute. Reflections of an editor, in journal of religion in africa. Mwene mutapa is shona for ravager of the lands, and was also the title held by the dynasty of kings who ruled the territory, which was between the zambezi and limpopo rivers.
The empire was comprised of a karanga majority speaking population. Wikimatrix en to translate a word that has two meanings in the meaning that is totally. Monomotapa was a bakalanga kingdom which was centered in the zambezi valley in what are the modern states of northern zimbabwe, north western mozambique and south eastern zambia. Wikimatrix en to translate a word that has two meanings in the meaning that is totally against the context.
Imperio monomotapa wikipedia, a enciclopedia livre. Pdf the stratigraphy on the acropolis indicates that a social. A similar misrepresentation of the name mwene mutapa is its change to munhumutapa to suggest that the mutapas were not only kidnappers of children, but also enslavers of ablebodied adults for cheap labour to build the great stone monuments found throughout the mutapa kingdom, of which great zimbabwe is just the biggest and wellpublicised in. Mwene mutapa, like kongo, had trouble coping under these conditions. May 04, 2012 gatsi rusere munhumutapa 15891623 picture is part of the national stamp collection issued by the zimbabwe post office in conjunction with the zimbabwe national archives in 1985 to honor the 50th anniversary of the national archives. Their domain was often called the empire of the mwene matapa, or simply. Mutapas government the portuguese people who arrived in the east african coast in the 1500s thought mwenemutapa was a title of respect for the ruler. Reflections of an editor, in journal of religion in africa, 36 200634, 379399, riprendendo il filo del discorso fatto nel 1999 dal suo predecessore adrian hastings african christianity. The african adventurer magazine is for people of any walk of life who either love to travel or would like to be transported through our adventure stories of places across africa.
Phillipp mwene was born in vienna and holds dual citizenship of kenya and austria. The mwene conquering king or masterpillager was the designation given to the state which was referred to as mwene mutapa. Mwene matapa historical dynastic title, southern africa. Phillipp mwene was born in vienna and holds dual citizenship of kenya and. News of the south in my previous article entitled dont teach rubbish about mwenemutapa, i bemoaned not only the death of knowledge in zimbabwe about the mwenemutapa leadership, but also the lack of proper acknowledgement of the role mwenemutapa leadership played in defending the land of zimbabweans that included shona people as well as masena, manyanja.
Reconceptualizing decline, abandonment, and reoccupation of an ancient polity, ad 14501900 article pdf available in historical archaeology 471. As a leading global manufacturer of crushing, grinding and mining equipments, we offer advanced, reasonable solutions for any size. Introduction one of the questions that have dominated. Thus a region which was once the centre of the indigenous mwene mutapa state and a key site of earlier portuguese mercantile and catholic missionary activity was now rendered marginal by colonial boundary making. The mutapa empire monompotapa, developed gradually out of the culture of great zimbabwe between 1200 to 1450. Trading civilizations flourished from the 9th century, culminating in the mwene mutapa empire empire of great zimbabwe from the 15th century.
Lempire du monomotapa, aussi appele empire du grand zimbabwe, egalement mwene mutapa. Ellert in, rivers of gold, enjoyed rights to free voyage between diu and mozambique and the rivers. Requiem for the jaga 123 young for their own use and service it would seem that hence came the cumbas1 who are destroying guinea for in cruelty they are alike. Jan 18, 2020 southern africa is the southernmost region of the african continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, and including several countries. Mutapa hotels and resorts, the conquered lands, links back to the kingdom of the same name mwene mutapa, with borders that spread between the zambezi and limpopo rivers including wider hinterland regions, which now form part of modern era countries of zimbabwe, south africa, mozambique and botswana. The african adventurer magazine issue 1 by african. Monomotapa kingdom existed between 14501629, it succeeded the great zimbabwe kingdom. The empire of great zimbabwe also called mwene mutapa or manhumutapa or mhunhumutapa or monomotapa or mutapa or mwanamutapa was a medieval kingdom 4001629 located in southern africa covering mainly the modern states of zimbabwe and mozambique. The mutapa state was dominant south of the zambezi from the fifteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries in what are now the modern states of zimbabwe and mozambique but its decline began in. Great empires of the past series, you will find connections boxes. Pdf silvia cristofori, note sul movimento pentecostale.
Ravager of the landsalso spelled mwene mutapa or monomotapa, title borne by a line of kings ruling a southeast african territory between the zambezi and limpopo rivers, in what. The first mwene was a warrior prince named nyatsimba mutota who. Its stronghold was a fortified stone town known as great zimbabwe houses of stone, which was founded around and had a population of up to 18,000 at its peak. Ravager of the landsalso spelled mwene mutapa or monomotapa, title borne by a line of. The methods to create pdf files explained here are free and easy to use. Mwene matapa historical dynastic title, southern africa britannica. Timeline of zambia chalo chatu, zambia online encyclopedia. Pdf silvia cristofori, note sul movimento pentecostale in. Mutapa aka matapa, mwenemutapa, and monomotapa was a southern african kingdom. After mutotas death, civil war among the mwenes broke out over a fight for the crown. Mobilefrontends original wikitext editor 20122014 mobile. According to oral traditions, nyatsimba mutota migrated from the declining of great zimbabwe and began his conquest of the northern part areas. Southern africa wikimili, the best wikipedia reader.
The mutapa western adaptation of the munhumutapa or mwenemutapa or monomutapa depending on the shona. For mwene mutapa, outlying parts of the kingdom broke away in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, forcing the core to become a portuguese protectorate in 1633. Southern africa is the southernmost region of the african continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, and including several countries. The african adventurer magazine issue 1 by african sporting. The empire of great zimbabwe also called mwene mutapa or manhumutapa or mhunhumutapa or monomotapa or mutapa or. The pdf24 creator installs for you a virtual pdf printer so that you can print your. Zimbabwe and the beginning of the mwene mutapa dynasty.
Mutotas successor, mwenemutapa matope, extended this new kingdom into an empire which contained most of the lands between tavara and the indian ocean. The african ejournals project has digitized full text of. Mutapa hotels and resorts, the conquered lands, links back to the kingdom of the same name mwene mutapa, with borders that spread between the zambezi and limpopo rivers including wider. Mwene mutapa empire, and the butua state, comprised in the six teenth century. The mutapa state was dominant south of the zambezi. The term southern africa or southern africa, generally includes angola, botswana, eswatini also known as swaziland, lesotho, malawi, mozambique, namib. Mutapa state economic organisation interms of mining products. Proceedings of the leverhulme intercollegiate conference, pp. Jan 04, 2016 the mutapa state consolidated power and maintained its dominance from the 15th to the 20th century in what is now present day zimbabwe. Ravager of the landsalso spelled mwene mutapa or monomotapa, title borne by a line of kings ruling a southeast african territory between the zambezi and limpopo rivers, in what is now zimbabwe and mozambique, from the 14th to the 17th century.