Regional1830 – 1895 · 65 years

Yao slaving wars

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Lake Nyasa · Yaoland · Kilwa · Shire Highlands · Lake Malawi

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Yao slave-raiding wars between Lake Nyasa and Kilwa, an East African endemic conflict that drew in British anti-slavery patrols.

Belligerents6

Yao
Swahili Arab traders
Ngoni
Makua
British Central Africa Protectorate
Yao chiefdoms

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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