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21 Sep, 10 tweets, 3 min read

BIBI KULUUNDA THE YAO QUEEN (NYASALAND QUEEN )
Bibi Kuluunda was born in 1840 in Mwembe Mocambique near a hill called Yao, where the name of the Yao is derived from.Bibi means sister in Swahili. Bibi Kuluunda was a sister of Makanjira who was also a Yao chief #History

Together they spent the first half of 1890s fighting the colonial forces under Captain Maguire and Sir Harry Johnstone.Infact their hostilities with the colonial govt started in 1887 when Bibi Kuluunda and Makanjira arrested John Buchanan,

the British leader of Nyasaland and refused to release him.Bibi and Makanjira later released Buchanan after they whipped him.There are different types of Yao who migrated to Nyasaland but the prominent groups were the Mangoche Yao and the Machinga Yao.

One of the other groups was called the Makanjira clan led by Makanjira, Bibi Kuluunda and Kazembe. Bibi Kuluunda left Mocambique after she quarrelled with the ruling clans and left for Nyasaland.She crossed Lake Nyasa(Malawi) in 1880 and settled at Domira Bay with her people.

Bibi was 40 years old in 1880 when she crossed Lake Nyasa (Malawi) .The History of the Yao in Nyasaland is a old as the history of the creation of the Nyasaland British protectorate itself.Infact Nyasaland was created to a greater extent because of the Yao activities then

Yohanna Barnaba Abdallah, the author of the Yao history, was educated at Likoma by the UMCA and was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1898 and served in Zanzibar as well.Abdallah spent most of his time on the eastern side of Lake Nyasa at Unangu where the UMCA had their Anglican

mission Abdallah went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1905 and was a great student of Greek language. His greatest work was the “Chiikala cha wa Yao”, a history book of the Yao people published in 1919.Abdallah was called as a witness in the 1915 Uprising case of

Saidi Bango vs Nyasaland government.Saidi Bango who took the Chilembwe letter to the Germans in Tanganyika was kept at Abdallah’s house on his way back in Mocambique. Abdallah never showed up as a witness in Blantyre. Bango won the case as the key witness (Abdallah) did not show

Up Abdallah’s father was a Lomwe [Nguru] named Barnaba Nakaam who was also a devout christian. Abdallah wrote alot about the Yao in his works Abdallah died in 1924.The Yao and the Lomwe/Nguru Makua ancestors were believed to be cousins

with the female cousin’s descendants being the Yao and the male cousin’s descendants being the Lomwe. In 1860 when Bibi Kuluunda was 20 years old war broke out between the Yao and the Lomwe cousins in Mocambique due to famine.........
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