Back 4D Future For 11/7/20: The Lost Kingdom (Part 3)

We left off observing that some early Ikalanga traditions trace the formation of the first Bakalanga kingdom to the south west migration of people from the Mutapa state during a period of strife fuelled by the Portuguese sponsored expansion of trading for ivory, gold and more destructively slaves in what is today northern Mozambique and adjacent areas of eastern Zimbabwe.

According to Ikalanga traditions collected by Masola Kumile during this period of turmoil a leader remembered as Madabhale emerged to ultimately lead the Bakalanga to peace and prosperity.

According to Kumile’s sources: “the Munamutapa kingdom was torn by internal fighting, civil warfare that destroyed the Bakalanga. It was then that Madabhale broke away with a very big following and went down to the west of the country, into [modern] Matabeleland. He went there to build a kingdom, having left with a very large following. It was a big kingdom and he had his councillors such as Nimale, Hungwe, Zwikono, Vunamakuni, Nkami, Nigwande, Ninhembwe and many others of the tribe.

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