Etsha: A Successful Resettlement Scheme
1976; Volume: 8; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0525-5090
Autores Tópico(s)African history and culture analysis
ResumoAt least 80% of the refugees were Hambukushu. It is generally agreed that the Hambukushu lived in the valleys around the Zambezi floodplain in the Katima Mulilo area until cl750. At that time there was some local strife, and they moved northwest to the Mashe area of the Kwando valley (now southwest Zambia). After approximately 60 years, most of lhe tribe moved southwestwards to the Okavango, and established their capital on islands in the river at what is now known as Andara. While Andara remained their major centre, groups of Hambukushu split off and moved elsewhere. One group had moved southeast to the Betsaa-Gunitshuga (Kabamukuni) area by the 1890s alledgedly to escape from Chief Lebebe Andara who was said to be trading their children into slavery. In the 1930s some of this group moved northeast to escape the tsetse which were then moving into the Kabamukuni area, and eventually settled in the area of Siambisso's by the Linyanti River in the Caprivi Strip. A second major split followed the death of Chief Lebebe Andara in 1895. There was a succession dispute, in which possession of the vital rain-making apparatus was a major issue, following which part of the tribe accepted Lebebe II and remained with him at Andara. The remainder of the tribe supported Monkoya and moved with him first to the Kwando, and then to the Luengue, a tributary of the Kwando. By 1924, however, the successor to Monkoya, Mbambangandu I, had reached an understanding with Niangana, Chief of the Mokwangadi (see below), and had established his village at Gangondo, on the Okavango between the Okavango/Cuito confluence and Andara.
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