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[[File:Barotseland Location Map.jpg|thumb|Barotseland location map]] | [[File:Barotseland Location Map.jpg|thumb|Barotseland location map]] | ||
'''Barotseland''' is a region between | '''Barotseland''' is a region between Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, [[Zambia]] and Angola, and is the homeland of the [[Lozi people]] or ''Barotse'',<ref>The prefix "Ba-" indicates "the people/tribe of"; "Lozi" or "-rotse" are different interpretations/spellings of the same word. "Si-" indicates the language.</ref> or Malozi as they call themselves who are a unified group of over 20 individual formerly diverse tribes related through kinship, whose original branch are the Luyi (Maluyi), and also assimilated northern Sotho of South Africa who they called [[Sotho people#Zulu expansionism and White migration|Kololo]].<ref name="Phiri">{{Cite encyclopedia|author=Phiri, Bizeck J.|year=2005|editor=Shillington, Kevin|title=Lozi Kingdom and the Kololo|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of African History, Volume II, H-O|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn (Routledge)|location=New York|pages=[http://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&pg=PA851 851–852]|isbn=978-1-57958-454-2}}</ref><ref name="UPNO">{{Cite web|title=Barotseland|publisher=Unrepresented Peoples and Nations Organization|url=http://www.unpo.org/members/16714|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103091001/http://www.unpo.org/members/16714|archivedate=3 January 2014|deadurl=no}}</ref> | ||
The Barotse speak a complex language, [[Silozi]], derived from several languages but primarily [[Sesotho]]. Barotseland covers an area of 126,386 square kilometres, but is estimated to have been twice as large at certain points in its history. Once an empire, the kingdom stretched into Namibia and Angola and included other parts of Zambia, including its central [[Copperbelt Province]], south-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo's [[Katanga Province]]. | The Barotse speak a complex language, [[Silozi]], derived from several languages but primarily [[Sesotho]]. Barotseland covers an area of 126,386 square kilometres, but is estimated to have been twice as large at certain points in its history. Once an empire, the kingdom stretched into Namibia and Angola and included other parts of Zambia, including its central [[Copperbelt Province]], south-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo's [[Katanga Province]]. | ||
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Barotseland Administrator General, Hon. Afumba Mombotwa and three other members of the Barotseland Provisional Government were arrested by Zambian police and spirited away to Mumbwa Prison, and then to Kabwe Prison, and charged that on unknown date but between March 1, 2012 and August 20, 2013 while in Sioma district the four, Hon. Afumba Mombotwa, Hon. Kalima Inambao, Hon. Pelekelo Kalima and Hon. Paul Masiye jointly acting together with unknown people conspired to secede "Western Province" (Barotseland) from the rest of Zambia. On 26 January 2015, the Mwembeshi magistrate court ruled that their case be committed to Kabwe High court for commencement of trial, the prisoners having been in maximum incarceration since the 5th of December 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://barotsepost.com/index.php/component/k2/item/410-hon-afumba-mombotwa-and-other-three-co-accused-reject-zambian-trial-over-trumped-up-treason-charges#.VM0_hIFlZc0.facebook|title=Barotseland Post|work=barotsepost.com|accessdate=8 November 2015}}</ref> | Barotseland Administrator General, Hon. Afumba Mombotwa and three other members of the Barotseland Provisional Government were arrested by Zambian police and spirited away to Mumbwa Prison, and then to Kabwe Prison, and charged that on unknown date but between March 1, 2012 and August 20, 2013 while in Sioma district the four, Hon. Afumba Mombotwa, Hon. Kalima Inambao, Hon. Pelekelo Kalima and Hon. Paul Masiye jointly acting together with unknown people conspired to secede "Western Province" (Barotseland) from the rest of Zambia. On 26 January 2015, the Mwembeshi magistrate court ruled that their case be committed to Kabwe High court for commencement of trial, the prisoners having been in maximum incarceration since the 5th of December 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://barotsepost.com/index.php/component/k2/item/410-hon-afumba-mombotwa-and-other-three-co-accused-reject-zambian-trial-over-trumped-up-treason-charges#.VM0_hIFlZc0.facebook|title=Barotseland Post|work=barotsepost.com|accessdate=8 November 2015}}</ref> | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://www.barotseland.com/ Barotseland.com] | *[http://www.barotseland.com/ Barotseland.com] | ||
*[http://www.barotseland.info Barotseland Intended Government] | *[http://www.barotseland.info Barotseland Intended Government] | ||
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