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For more than a century, historians and writers on Africa have almost invariably associated the name Mlozi with all the cruellest excesses of the central and east African slave trade during the nineteenth century. That Mlozi bin Kazbadema was a significant slaver who conducted his trade according to all the brutal conventions of his period is beyond dispute. His subsequent botched hanging at the end of a British-sponsored rope, following a drum-head trial of questionable legality, has been generally regarded as well-deserved and a fitting, if muscular, exemplar of Pax Britannica in action.

In The End of the Slaver, a title taken from recollections of Mlozi's hanging by the medical missionary Dr. Kerr Cross, author David Stuart-Mogg examines Mlozi's life and milieu and carefully weighs the often conflicting evidence apparent between official military and government reports and the largely unpublished private letters and diaries written at the time by those who participated in Mlozi's downfall and elimination. Stuart-Mogg's carefully evaluated findings call into serious question the altruism and philanthropy that the ultimate, and inevitable, victors of the struggle accorded their actions and their undoubtedly laudable ultimate objective - the eradication of slavery in British Central Africa.

Referring to this book as 'an unusually stimulating study, Professor Shepperson recommends that The End of the Slaver deserves to be widely-read, not only by those whose primary interest is in the history of Malawi but also by students of slavery and the anti-slavery movements in the nineteenth century - and, indeed by all who are concerned with man's inhumanity to man.

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Date de parution	23 janvier 2024
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MloziofCentralAfrica Mlozi of Central Africa Trader, Slaver and self-styled Sultan Te End of te Slaver

by David Stuart-Mogg wit a Foreword by Professor Emeritus George Sepperson, C.B.E.

Mlozi of Central Africa Trader, Slaver and self-styled Sultan

he End of te Slaver

Wat te istorians say about tis book :

In te story of slavery and empire-building in Central Africa, Mlozi’s life is by no means insigniﬁcant. One must, terefore, be very grateful to David Stuart-Mogg for producing tis substantial and not unsympatetic study of a complex ﬁgure. Professor Emeritus George Sepperson, CBE. University of Edinburg

Well-researced, David Stuart-Mogg’s study of te 19t century slave-trader Mlozi bin Kazbadema is an important contribution to our understanding of te early istory of te Nyasaland Protectorate besides oﬀering insigts into te motives and actions of suc political luminaries as Lugard and Jonston. he study gives a sympatetic portrayal of Mlozi, is relations wit te Ngonde and is role witin te wider political economy of te region. Professor Emeritus Brian Morris, University of London

Drawing skilfully on a wide range of source material, te autor as crafted for us a fascinating, igly readable and copiously illustrated account of an intriguing and important caracter in te early istory of Malawi. Professor Emeritus Colin Baker, M.B.E., University of Glamorgan, Wales

his is a genuinely pioneering work, one from wic all students of Malawi’s tangled istory can learn. Professor Jon McCracken, formerly Professor of History, University of Malawi; Past President, African Studies Association, UK

‘his biograpy of te man we know as “Mlozi” must be te ﬁrst book for more tan a undred years on te “Arab War” and its aftermat. Drawing on oral, arcival and publised sources it is clearly written, and well illustrated, and seds new ligt on an intriguing story. he cast of caracters includes Mlozi imself and is Swaili-speaking collaborators and competitors, as well as te representatives of te African Lakes Company and a motley

band of volunteers and mercenaries, including Frederick Lugard, later a great African proconsul and peer of te realm, and Alfred Sarpe, later governor of Nyasaland. And ten tere is te controversial and impetuous Sir Harry Jonston... tey all make for a good read.’ Professor Hug Macmillan, formerly Professor of History, University of Transkei, Sout Africa, wo as also taugt at universities in Zambia and Swaziland

David Stuart-Mogg’s book is a callenging, fascinating, multi-layered work examining a dark period in Malawi’s istory using te story of te ivory and slave trader Mlozi. Using Mlozi’s life, I liked and enjoyed te way e illustrates man’s past and current inumanity to fellow man covering,inter alia,te African victims of slavery; te fellow Africans wo captured tem; te Afro-Arab middlemen; te Arabs wo bougt tem and transported tem; Islam; Cristianity; early colonialism and its cast of caracters and army and some of te, often less tan onourable, 19t Century European traders in Malawi wose commerce replaced Mlozi’s. A most rewarding read for allstudents of Malawi istory! Dr. Jon Lwanda, MB, CB, FRCP, P.D., writer and social istorian

The British liked to promote a historical myth that their acquisition of Central African territories like Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and Nyasaland (Malawi) occurred as part of a competition between empires. David Stuart-Mogg… set out to try to redress the balance against a purely British viewpoint of the nature of the conflict with Mlozi and his compatriots and also to attempt to find out some of the lingering attitudes to this figure from among his African enemies, including the people among whom he settled, and from his descendants, insofar as they could be identified. Professor John M. Mackenzie, African Research & Documentation, No. 113, 2010, pp. 41–42 This is… written with the precision of the surgeon’s knife about the events surrounding the horrors of slavery – one of Africa’s darkest periods. The work is exceptional in its research and quality of writing and comes from a noteworthy historian with a keen analytical mind. John Catton (editor), Rhino Link: the Journal of the King’s African Rifles & East African Forces Association, Vol. II, No. 14, 2011.

Mlozi of Mpata, Britis Central Africa Scourge of te Nkonde nation Commercial treat to te Scottis African Lakes Company Casualty of Britis intervention in Central Africa From a sketc by (Sir) Harry Jonston publised inhe Grapic

Mlozi of Central Africa Trader, Slaver and self-styled Sultan

he End of te Slaver

by David Stuart-Mogg

wit a Foreword by Professor Emeritus George Sepperson, C.B.E.

Luviri Press,Mzuzu, Malawi2023

First publised by Central Africana Limited of Blantyre, Malawi in May 2010

All rigts reserved. No part of tis publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mecanical, potocopying, recording or oterwise witout te written permission of te copyrigt older

ISBN 978-99960-80-20-3 eISBN 978-99960-80-21-0

Cover design and typesetting Petra Filip, Wild Vanilla, Cape Town

T h e E n d o f t h e S l a v e r

Foreword amed bin Muammed bin Juma bin Rajed el Murjebi, better known as H Tippu Tib, one of te great slavers in Central Africa in te nineteent century, died in 1905. An Englis version of a German work written about 1 im in is lifetime appeared sortly after is deat ; is autobiograpy in 2 Swaili was publised in 1966 ; and a study of is life and signiﬁcance came 3 out nine years later .

It as been very diﬀerent wit anoter Central African slave trader. Altoug Mlozi bin Kazbadema, better known simply as Mlozi, may not ave te importance of Tippu Tip in te story of slavery and empire-building in Central Africa, Mlozi’s life is by no means insigniﬁcant for Central African istory. But writers, scolarly or oterwise, ave been slow to rise to te callenge of carting and interpreting is life. He was executed in 1895; but te twentiet century passed witout a book being publised about Mlozi.

One must, terefore, be very grateful to David Stuart-Mogg for producing in te ﬁrst decade of te twenty-ﬁrst century tis substantial and not unsympatetic study of a complex ﬁgure. hose oﬃcials, journalists and academics wo referred to Mlozi in teir writings, in is lifetime and afterwards, ave taken too often a simplistic approac to im, frequently making Mlozi out to be an unadulterated villain. In contrast, te autor of tis ﬁrst book to be publised about Mlozi and is activities sows im to be a far more complicated ﬁgure tan suc over-simpliﬁed attitudes indicate. David Stuart-Mogg sees Mlozi as an entrepreneurial trader as well as a slaver; and e empasises is dignity, especially in te face of a most undigniﬁed deat.

Harry Jonston, te ﬁrst Commissioner and Consul General in wat was ten known as Britis Central Africa, provided grapic evidence of Mlozi’s 4 dignity in a sketc wic e made of im and wic David Stuart-Mogg, appropriately, reproduces as a frontispiece. Indeed, one of te attractive

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Heinrich Brode,Tippo Tib(London, 1907). Maisha ya Hamed bin Muhammed el Tippu Tip, with English translation by W. H. Whitely (Kampala, 1966). Leda Farrant,Tippu Tib and the East African Slave Trade(London, 1975). Cf. Margery Perham,Lugard,Vol.1, (London, 1956), p.156: Mlozi was “a reverendlooking ﬁgure”.

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features of is book is its range of carefully-selected illustrations, many of wic are taken from scarce sources.

His book, to be sure, is based upon a very wide range of sources: oral; in manuscript and in print; and some,mirabile dictu, from tat wonder of te twenty –ﬁrst century, te internet itself.

Some of tese sources are reproduced in full in te six valuable appendices to tis book; and te reader is strongly advised not to neglect tem.

It as been my privilege and pleasure to watc David Stuart-Mogg at work on tis fascinating book and I ave learned a great deal from it. I sould be very surprised if oter readers are not as fortunate as I ave been in te acquisition of information and interest from tis unusually stimulating study. David Stuart-Mogg’s book deserves to be widely-read, not only by tose wose primary interest is in te istory of Malawi but also by students of slavery and te anti-slavery movements in te nineteent century – and, indeed, by all wo are concerned wit man’s inumanity to man.

Kila mlango na nfunguo wakwe“Every declares a Swaili proverb: door as its key.” David Stuart-Mogg in tis well-researced volume supplies te perceptive reader wit a strong bunc of keys for opening doors into parts of Malawi’s past wic ave been closed for fartoo long.

Professor Emeritus George Shepperson, C.B.E. Orton Wistow, Peterborough. May, 2010

T h e E n d o f t h e S l a v e r

Acknowledgements oremost I wis to express my deep gratitude to Professor George F Sepperson wo as encouraged and supported my eﬀorts wit unfailing entusiasm and good umour trougout te process of researcing and writing tis book. His profound knowledge of Malawi’s fascinating and colourful istory as provided alternative insigts and potential avenues of enquiry tat would oterwise undoubtedly ave escaped me. I would also like to tank Dr. Jon Wilson wo introduced me to Mlozi’s great-great grandson, Walusungu Killy Sicinga, wo is imself diligently researcing is ancient family’s istory wit a view to future publication and yet as generously allowed me te beneﬁt of is notes and oﬀered valuable commentary on is ancestor’s milieu.

Common denominators amongst all tose to wom appreciation is due are undoubtedly tose of entusiasm and unstinting willingness to sare knowledge and experience, eiter from teir own past researces or by offering views, counsel and guidance as my tougts developed. I would tank Dr.T. Jack Tompson of te Scool of Divinity, Edinburg University; Professor Jon McCracken, formerly of te University of Malawi; Mr. Paul Cole-King, former Director of te Department of Antiquities, Malawi; Professor Colin Baker of te University of Glamorgan wit wom I also sare co-editorsip ofTe Journal of te Society of Malawi – Historical & Scientific; Mr. Don MacKenzie, retired Managing Director of te African Lakes Corporation; Dr. Austin Mkandawire; Frl. Steffi Müller, Ms. Dona Gondwe; Mr. Walusako Mwalilino; Mr. Frank Jonston and Mr. Peter Carlton. I would also like to express my tanks to Mrs. Dora Wimbus, te Society of Malawi’s Honorary Librarian and Mr. Mike Bamford, te Society’s Honorary Secretary for teir patience and understanding in te face of relentless requests over an extended period.