Yao Intrusion into Southern Malawi, Nyanja Resistance and Colonial Conquest, 1830-1900

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Title:	Yao Intrusion into Southern Malawi, Nyanja Resistance and Colonial Conquest, 1830-1900
Author:	Phiri, Kings M.
Year:	1984
Periodical:	Transafrican Journal of History
Volume:	13
Pages:	157-176
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Malawi
Subjects:	ethnic relations Nyanja Yao colonial conquest Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration colonialism
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/24328494
Abstract:	This article examines the way in which the two major ethnic groups in Southern Malawi interacted with each other in the late pre-colonial period, and highlights the bearing which their relations had on the way they interacted with the colonial system at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. An account of Nyanja political and economic organisation at the beginning of the 19th century, i.e. prior to the advent of the Yao, is followed by a discussion of how the Yao migrated into southern Malawi and established their political dominance over the Nyanja and of the way in which the latter resisted the Yao presence. Lastly, an attempt is made to show that while benefitting from the conflict of interests which existed between the Yao and Nyanja, colonial conquest had the effect of exacerbating that conflict. Bibliogr., fig., notes.