Kijiji cha Watoro : resistance, identity, and social life of Nyamwezi runaway slaves along the central caravan route in Tanzania
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- Salvatory Nyanto and Felicitas Maria Becker (UGent)
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- ASEA (The aftermath of slavery in East Africa)
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- Understanding of post-slavery in East Africa has increased in recent years, but the role of marronage and maroon settlements in the mainland remains to be explored. Existing studies, notably by Fred Morton, show the importance of maroon settlements near the coast, while for the mainland Marcia Wright has shown people fleeing enslavement seeking safety by attaching themselves to existing lineages or to mission settlements, rather than by forming maroon settlements. By contrast, this article focuses on settlements whose leadership was African, not missionary, and which absorbed a variety of formerly unfree and other displaced people, often arriving via the central caravan route. It centres on Maungulu or Mbugani village, which oral sources describe as established by Nyamwezi fugitive slaves in the nineteenth century. The layered and sometimes divergent recollections of informants here suggest that people arrived in this settlement from diverse situations of distress and kept arriving after abolition. Slave flight, then, serves here as a trope that organizes, and perhaps valorizes, diverse experiences of flight, displacement and the reconstruction of identities no longer tainted by slavery.
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- Nyanto, Salvatory, and Felicitas Maria Becker. “Kijiji Cha Watoro : Resistance, Identity, and Social Life of Nyamwezi Runaway Slaves along the Central Caravan Route in Tanzania.” SLAVERY & ABOLITION, vol. 46, no. 3, 2025, pp. 567–89, doi:10.1080/0144039X.2025.2532901.
- APA
- Nyanto, S., & Becker, F. M. (2025). Kijiji cha Watoro : resistance, identity, and social life of Nyamwezi runaway slaves along the central caravan route in Tanzania. SLAVERY & ABOLITION, 46(3), 567–589. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2025.2532901
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- Nyanto, Salvatory, and Felicitas Maria Becker. 2025. “Kijiji Cha Watoro : Resistance, Identity, and Social Life of Nyamwezi Runaway Slaves along the Central Caravan Route in Tanzania.” SLAVERY & ABOLITION 46 (3): 567–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2025.2532901.
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- Nyanto, Salvatory, and Felicitas Maria Becker. 2025. “Kijiji Cha Watoro : Resistance, Identity, and Social Life of Nyamwezi Runaway Slaves along the Central Caravan Route in Tanzania.” SLAVERY & ABOLITION 46 (3): 567–589. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2025.2532901.
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- 1.Nyanto S, Becker FM. Kijiji cha Watoro : resistance, identity, and social life of Nyamwezi runaway slaves along the central caravan route in Tanzania. SLAVERY & ABOLITION. 2025;46(3):567–89.
- IEEE
- [1]S. Nyanto and F. M. Becker, “Kijiji cha Watoro : resistance, identity, and social life of Nyamwezi runaway slaves along the central caravan route in Tanzania,” SLAVERY & ABOLITION, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 567–589, 2025.
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