Mbololo was a Litunga

Litunga

The Litunga of Barotseland is the king or paramount chief of the Lozi people. The Litunga resides near the Zambezi River and the town of Mongu, at Lealui on the floodplain in the dry season, and on higher ground at Limulunga on the edge of the floodplain in the wet season...

 (chief) of Makololo tribe, a successor of Liswaniso. He ruled 1863 - 1864. He was the last king of Makololo dynasty.

Family

Mbololo was a brother of the King Sebetwane

Sebetwane

Sebetwane was a Southern African king, Basotho chief. He established the large and powerful Makololo nation in what is now southwestern Zambia after an arduous migration from his original home - Free State Province....

 and uncle of the Queen Mamochisane

Mamochisane

Mamochisane was a Makololo Queen who ruled over many people, but especially the Lozi in Barotseland, today's Western Zambia, and was a wife of King Sipopa Lutangu.Her uncle was the king Mbololo.- Biography :...

 and King Sekeletu

Sekeletu

Sekeletu was the Makololo King of Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863.- Biography :Sekeletu was a son of the King Sebetwane and Queen Setlutlu. He succeeded his half-sister Mamochisane, who had decided to step down from the throne...

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Reign

He was a successor of the king Liswaniso and he seized the kingship in 1863. He was even more unpopular then Sekeletu.

He was very cruel and was overthrown by a force led by a Lozi

Lozi

Lozi may refer to:*The Lozi language*The Lozi people*Lozi in South West Africa...

 contingent from the north in August 1864. After his death general Njekwa destroyed Makololo.

View of Coillard

The French missionary

Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...

 François Coillard

François Coillard

François Coillard was a missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in southern Africa....

, who had read much of David Livingstone

David Livingstone

David Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr...

’s work noted:

Sources

• Makololo interregnum and the legacy of David Livingstone (PDF)
• Dictionary of African historical biography by Mark R. Lipschutz and R. Kent Rasmussen
• Trade and Travel in Early Barotseland by George Westbeech, Edward C. Tabler, Norman Magnus MacLeod
• Iron Age Cultures in Zambia: Dambwa, Ingombe Ilede, and the Tonga by Brian M. Fagan, D. W. Phillipson, and S. G. H. Daniels