XIXᵉ siècle – XIXᵉ siècle
Upper Zambezi and Caprivi region
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The Lozi Empire is mentioned as a polity whose southern reaches included part of the Caprivi Strip. Its rule extended over groups speaking many different languages, illustrating the multilingual and politically diverse character of precolonial regional formations. The extract uses the empire to challenge assumptions that later ethnic labels neatly mapped onto earlier political communities.
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The Lozi Empire appears in the extract as an example of a precolonial polity that crossed later territorial and ethnic boundaries. Its far southern reaches included part of the Caprivi Strip, linking the history of the upper Zambezi world to the territory later incorporated into Namibia.
The empire ruled groups speaking many different languages. This detail is significant because it separates political authority from the idea of a homogeneous ethnic nation. A single polity could encompass communities with distinct linguistic identities and local histories.
The reference to the Lozi Empire supports a broader interpretation of Namibia’s past as a history of overlapping political dispensations, kin networks, and cultural formations. Later colonial borders and ethnic labels did not simply reproduce these earlier arrangements.
XIXᵉ siècle – XIXᵉ siècle
Upper Zambezi and Caprivi region
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
The Lozi Empire is mentioned as a polity whose southern reaches included part of the Caprivi Strip. Its rule extended over groups speaking many different languages, illustrating the multilingual and politically diverse character of precolonial regional formations. The extract uses the empire to challenge assumptions that later ethnic labels neatly mapped onto earlier political communities.
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Le récit
The Lozi Empire appears in the extract as an example of a precolonial polity that crossed later territorial and ethnic boundaries. Its far southern reaches included part of the Caprivi Strip, linking the history of the upper Zambezi world to the territory later incorporated into Namibia.
The empire ruled groups speaking many different languages. This detail is significant because it separates political authority from the idea of a homogeneous ethnic nation. A single polity could encompass communities with distinct linguistic identities and local histories.
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